Week 1 - Writing A Journal

Journal Writing

Journaling is a method used to record learning or anything that may be important to you.

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What goes into a journal?

A personal diary contains personal information that you may not wish to share.

A journal contains information, reflections about your learning experiences and growth that can be shared.

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What might go into my journal?

A record of your learning experiences & growth.Snippets of life.People who contribute to your learning. Interesting words or phrases that add to your

learning.Quotes that you find interesting.Comments about books, readings, ideas that

contribute to your learning & growth.Emotions you experience as you learn & grow.

Lets try one…Consider your

experiences so far with Nulloo Yumbah

What did you do? What did you learn?

Write quickly Don’t think ‘I shouldn’t be writing

that.’ Keep writing, don’t cross out or

erase anything. Don’t talk with others. Don’t worry about spelling or

grammar – your work can be polished later.

You now have 5 minutes to write a journal entry about your experiences so far.

If possible, sit in a circle and pass your journal to the person to your right.

If you are not in a group – read back over your writing and make any changes.

Read their journal- don’t give any verbal or non-verbal feedback.

Write a positive comment after it. Now…pass it on to the next person Read the next journal Write a positive comment after it. Continue this process.

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Other Techniques to get started

Make a list of conversations, emotions, facts, feelings, descriptions, impressions, quotes, images, ideas.

Use this as a basis for your journal writing.Write a sentence on each & link them together.

Residential

Point of View – Told from the point of view of yourself.

Feelsgood to havea voice.

Description- details of busy, hecticenvironment.

Doesnot

remind me ofmy own home.

Excited. Lots of new

things to discoverand learn.

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drumBring out the coffin, let the mourners come

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overheadScribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,My working week and my Sunday rest,My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.For nothing now can ever come to any good.

‘Stop all the clocks.’

Emotions Descriptions Impressions ImagesQuotes

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Other Techniques to get started

Clustering: Put the central idea

in a circle in the centre of a page.

In circles around it make smaller bubbles of associated ideas, emotions & descriptions.

Use these as a basis for your journal writing.

Ballard

Sends aMessage.

Tells a story Alliteration

Some areHumorous.

Lots of styles.

Similes

Poetry

We are the drifters, the faceless ones.Turn your heads as we walk by.We are the lost, forgotten sons,Bereft in a land of plenty.

Where is the spear of the days gone by?No more the chant of the hunting song:The laughing face and the laughing eyes,So sad in a land of plenty.

Oh, this earth! This sun! This sky I seeIs part of my hear, my heritage!Oh God, I cry. Cry God for me,For a place in a land of plenty.

Emotions

Descriptions

Ideas

Impressions

Quotes

Images

The Drifters.

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Start Writing!

You now have 10 minutes to write a journal entry about your reactions to the poem ‘ The Drifters’. (Davis, J) or ‘Stop all the clocks.’ (Arden, V.H.)

Pass your writing around the group.

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Summary

Lets recap. We have talked about…• The difference between a diary & a journal.• The focus of the journal being a record of your experience & growth.• Guidelines for writing & sharing. -How we might approach writing a journal piece.• Techniques for writing, lists, diagrams, clustering. • Journal writing gives you a voice.

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Summary

Expand on what you have done today for your journal.

Start your journal in Moodle, or a word processor.