Greetings Rhetors! And welcome to the world of blogging! Instead of continuously turning in journals in class every week, we are going to save paper AND prepare you for college in one swoop! Below I am giving you twenty journal prompts. Please label them clearly and post blog responses. This will be an ongoing project for you to work on all semester, but let me warn you: DO NOT PROCRASTINATE THIS UNTIL THE END OF THE SEMESTER OR YOU WILL BE UNHAPPY!The 20 blog posts/journal responses are due by 11:59:59 on December 4th, 2011!
Many of the prompts that you are given here come from various university applications. Here are your twenty journal prompts:
1. Pretend that you are talking to a blind man and have to describe for him what "red" is. You should use narrative and descriptive writing techniques, and try to appeal to his other senses!
2. How does competition function in our society? To what extent is it healthy/unhealthy? Offer some real world examples taken from your life, community, culture, state, nation, or world.
3. How have you taken something that you have learned in the classroom and integrated it into your nonacademic life?
4. If you could go back in time and be someone in history, who would you choose to be? Why?
5. If you had the responsibility to decide where $1 million should be spent to improve conditions somewhere in the world, what project(s) would you choose? Why?
6. How have you tried to effect change in relation to an issue of personal, local, or national significance?
7. If you could introduce one new idea or material thing to a primitive culture, what would it be?
8. If you were to describe yourself using a quotation, what would that quotation be? After you have chosen a quote, then write a bit about how it relates to you and reveals what kind of person you are.
9. Given the authority to establish a holiday, what would you choose to commemorate? Why? What would the celebration look like?
10. What is the best advice you've ever received? Explain.
11. Ask and answer the one important question that a university won't ask you, but you wish they would.
12. Your life is a movie. Describe the first 15 minutes.
13. Write a letter to your future college roommate introducing yourself and your background.
14. Please describe your reactions/ideas to the following quote: "He does not possess wealth, it possesses him."
15. What is the most valuable contribution you could make to a college campus? Explain.
16. Explain a significant experience, achievement, risk you have taken, or ethical dillema you have faced and its impact on you.
17. Discuss some issue of personal, local, national, or international concern and its importance to you.
18. If you could choose two things to change about our high school campus, what would they be and why?
19. Should school attendance be mandatory? In your answer, be sure to explore what the function of education is, and what our nation would look like if the masses were less educated.
20. If you had the ability to talk to one species of animal, which animal would you choose to communicate with? Why?
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