This activity will be done in students’ personal journals and will remain a reflection of the private self. It is based on one of the activities in Simons’
Keeping Your Personal Journal
. It is closely related to the sense of discovery which lies at the heart of autobiography and will be done fairly early in the unit.
Students will be asked to:
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1. Draw a clockface, without the hands, on a blank journal page;,
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2. silently ask, “What time is it in my life?” After thinking, draw the minute and hour hands on the clockface;
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3. think about how it feels to be at this time in your life. Quickly write down the thoughts you have. Try tying these thoughts, feelings, and facts into a paragraph.
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4. After you’ve completed your paragraph, mentally complete each of the sentence-starters below several times:
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It is too late to ...
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It is too soon to ...
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It is the right time for ...
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An alarm is set for
o’clock because ...
You may review this page on another day and do some further writing.