The Key to Being a Good Writer: Journal Entries For Sure

There are plenty of times where little children, adolescents, and even young adults have a hard time of expressing their feelings or talking about them in general. It is often hard for people generally to write anything that they are feeling or even to write short stories, poems and more, because they feel intimidated by the seemingly never ending blank sheet of paper and the common tool used to jot down what needs to written. Now in the Bomer book, Chapter 11, it specifically discusses the strategies and techniques used to to encourage different types of writing. For example, it's main objective or point in initiating this was by acknowledging the idea of Journal or Notebook Entries.

Now the first thought in taking on this process that Bomer talks about in "Teaching Diverse Types of Notebook Entries," Bomer amplifies the different ways that people and students mainly can take in learning how to use the words that were thought of and actually putting them towards paper. There are two distinct ways that i want to discuss. The first method is by 'Reaching into Memory'. I chose this method because not many people acknowledge what goes on in their everyday lives or think about what has happened. So this method would be like an ice breaker in the classroom in getting students to analyze what has happened in their lives thus far that has impacted them or made them feel a certain way just by reaching into their mind and picking the prime events. The second method is discussing how you feel and thinking of another time you felt that exact way. This method was chosen because students have a lot of built up emotions and feelings that they seize to explore personally. So, developing this idea in the classroom is like caring for a child of your own and taking a likeness to how the students feel and beckoning them to speak on it from paper and later possibly use it as an effective way to speak towards the class as like a breather.

Now something of importance caught my attention in another part of the Chapter. 'Intentional Strategies Versus Assignments,' is a discussion made by Bomer about the connection between journal entries and school. See, i believe that Bomer wanted to explain that journal entries shouldnt be forced upon students as way of an assignment to accumulate a grade, because by then it would feel like homework to that student and something that they feel they HAD to do in order to keeping up to date in that class. But Bomer wanted to also state that these journal or notebook entries should be something that the students intentionally WANT to do rather than having bargained for them. It's like a thin line between school and personal and technically the journal entries shouldn't be regarded in school aspects. This is how students can implement this in the classroom and at home when they can personally instead of rhetorically acknowledge their feelings and other emotions.


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