Collection #1

Journal #1 Brainstorm and 2 statements re: high school What is the “game” of high school? If it is a game, what are the rules? Have you learned to play the game?

Why do you play? What happens between youth and jaded teenage

years? How can you get out of the game? How does the idea that you are here to

claim vs. here to receive an education play into this concept of school as a game?

Journal 2

What are your first impressions after watching this?

This PowerPoint has a lot of information What stuck out to you?

What does all of this mean to you? How will it impact your life?

What do you think society expects from modern students?

What do you need to do/know now to help you as you enter this world?

Journal 3

Examine someone else’s Me Board Come to three conclusions about that

person and explain how you know

Journal 4

Look at the person’s American Icon Close read it, and attach it What does it say about America? What does it mean to be an American? How does the rest of the world perceive

us?

Journal 5

Read the other person’s poem Come to two conclusions about that

person Why is it important to know where

we come from?

Journal 6

Your values, traditions and belief brainstorm

Should have about 30 ideas/items listed