It's been sparking a ton of debate in my class! Today, the journal prompt was "In five years I will be...." and the students got to write about whatever they wanted.
Afterwards, we discussed the responses. Sad to say but some of them were a little bit depressing. One of my students said, "In five years I plan to be paying off student loans..." Another said, "In five years I plan to be working two jobs so that I can pay off my college debt..."
At least they're being realistic?? It created a real honest conversation about college, finances, and the reality of the world that we live in. We even got into the inequality between professor pay and administrator pay. The students, as you would imagine, had quite a lot to say. Much of it was well founded too!
Regardless of how outrageous it is that those were their genuine responses, I quite enjoyed utilizing journal prompts. I'll continue to do so moving forward too! So, I put together a unit of 14 journal prompts and 1 essay prompt - all of which rely on one another.
Feel free to go check it out by clicking the image above! I'd love to hear what kinds of journal prompts you have all used in class. Which were the most effective? Least effective?
No comments:
Post a Comment