Digital Journal

First Journal Entry

(7d) Reflection (for Part of My Story)

Long Way Down Reflection #1

"What do you think Will is feeling as he steps into the elevator? What would you do in his shoes?"

Long Way Down Reflection #2

Find or create an image that illustrates what Will might be thinking the moment he meets Buck, Dani, Uncle Mark, or his dad on the elevator. Explain: What internal dialogue is he having?

(16d) "Identities" & "The Bear the Wasn't" → Paragraph reflection

(18d) Reflection & Creative Response (for "The Worst Sin")

(20c) Reflection (for "Younger Sister, Going Swimming")

(21b) Reflections (Journal for Group Novel)

(32b) Fairy Tales (Reflection)

(33b) Reflection (Omelas)

Self-Assessment ("A Midsummer Night's Dream")

(54d) Journal (Comparing Resilience and Strength in Poetry)

Ethics Movie Reflection (Secondhand Lions)

When deciding what to believe, you should have evidence. If you don't, then you should consider the source. For example, I don't think the kid in the movie truly trusted his mom as much as he trusted his uncles. The story his uncles told him also sounded very believable and followed events that occurred around that time. Stories can be either fictional, non-fictional, or partly fictional. Legends, on the other hand, should be able to be proven with evidence.

(59) Be Careful What You Wish For

(61) Irraweka

Irraweka's mischief shows us how one person can affect an entire community even if it was only meant as a joke. In the story Irraweka creates problems not only for himself but disturb everyone around him. In the story when Irraweka removes the basket from the tree he did it because he thought that the man was trying to take the best food and hide it for himself, but the basket was actually working as a plug to stop the world from flooding. When Irraweka removed the plug it flooded the entire world affecting all the animals and the humans. This can connect to real life because one small disruption can create major consequences everywhere in an ecosystem. For example if we destroy the forest then animals lose their habitats, rivers can flow differently, and weather patterns can change for example making it rain more making a river flow way more than it used to causing the river to change its course and / or destroying other ecosystems downstream, making the environment unstable and unusable. When Irraweka removed the basket he didn't know what the consequences would be until it was too late to fix it, this is similar to when people make choices and don't understand the consequences. The story also shows how one mistake can affect innocent people. Overall i think that this story teaches us that one small decision can create a much bigger chain reaction of problems, and that we should think through our actions more carefully.