Journal+Prompts

Journal 1 Discuss your least favorite class of the day. What makes you dislike it so much? What would make it be a better class.

Journal 2 If you could travel anywhere in the world or in the universe, where would you go why?

Journal 3 Free write on any topic of your choice

Journal 4 What are some of the things you do well? Write about the thing or things that you are best at.

Journal 5 Write about the qualities you look for in your friends. Tell me what you and your best friend would do for fun.

Journal 6 Write about a time when you felt that you were treated unfairly by your teachers, parents or friends.

Journal 7 How do you find solutions to problems you face? Do you take a long walk by yourself? Or call your best friend on the phone and talk? Write about how you find solutions to your problems.

Journal 8 Being an American means different things to different people. What does being an American mean to you?

Journal 9 If you could change anything about your life what would it be? Would you be younger? Older? Would you live somewhere else? Tell what you would change about your life if you could and why.

Journal 10 Write about a topic of your choice.

Journal 11 What makes you panic? Why? Tell me about a time when you felt this way.

Journal 12 Write 10 items you would include in a time capsule for people who will live 100 years from now. List a reason for including each of the items.

Journal 13 What is your favorite holiday? Why?

Journal 14 If you had 3 wishes what would they be and why?

Journal 15 What would you do if you were rich?

Journal 16 Imagine you own a restaurant. Tell the name of your restaurant. Explain what the restaurant looks like, who works there, and what you serve.

Journal 17 If you could have any animal for a pet, what would it be? Describe the pet and how you would take care of it.

Journal 18 If you could have lunch with any famous person who would it be? What would you talk about with this person?

Journal 19 How old were you 5 years ago? Describe the things you can do now that you could not do then.

Journal 20 Which superpower would you most like to have-- invisibility, super strength, or the ability to fly? Describe what kinds of things you would do with your power?

Journal 21 Write about a topic of your choice.

Journal 22 List 15 things you want to do in your lifetime. Tell why you want to do each thing.

Journal 23 One day the teacher was home sick and they asked you to be the substitute. What kind of teacher would you be? What would your classes do all day?

Journal 24 Invent a monster and describe it. Tell where it lives, what it eats, and what it does.

Journal 25 Describe the last time you were really angry. What caused your anger? How did you expresss it? How do you now feel about your reaction?

Journal 26 What have you learned or accomplished so far in ESL class? How do you feel about writing? What bothers, worries or disappoints you?

Journal 27 Choose one of the following sentences as the opening for a short story (true or fictitious) and write the story: 1. Why did it have to happen to me? 2. I was scared to tell my parents. 3. I wish I hadn't said it. 4. It was a secret between my father and me.

Journal 28 Make up ten fortunes for fortune cookies.

Journal 29 You have been given the power to talk to animals. Which animal would you like to talk to? What questions would you ask?

Journal 30 Write about what you think you will be like and what you will be doing ten or twenty years from now.

Journal 31 Write on a topic of your choice.

Journal 32 Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania is a good place to live. True or False? Why?

Journal 33 Describe the place where you feel or have felt most at home. What makes it a comfortable place for you?

Journal 34 What would you do if you were the president of the United States?

Journal 35 Write about a topic of your choice.

Journal 37 What is something you dislike about yourself?

Journal 38 What would happen if there was no television? Why would this be good? bad?

Journal 39 What would happen if everyone lived in space? What type of houses would theylive in? What type of clothing would they wear? What type of food would they eat? How would they travel?

Journal 40 What is your favorite song or music group? Why? How do you feel when you listen to the song or the music group?

Journal 41 What is the best birthday present you have ever received/or would want to receive?

Journal 42 What would happen if people never co-operated? Why do you think it is important to co-operate?

Journal 43 What would you do if you saw a friend or classmate cheating-- report it, confront the friend, tell the teacher, or do nothing? Why?

Journal 44 If you could only take three people with you on a trip around the world, who would you take and why? What are three places you would want to go?

Journal 45 What do you think about ghosts? Do they exist? Have you ever seen one?

Journal 46 What do you think makes a happy family? How could your family be happier?

Journal 47 What do you think about students having to wear school uniforms? is it good or bad? What would you change if you could?

Journal 48 What are some of the rules you have to follow in your house? Why do you think that your parents/guardians give you rules?

Journal 49 When someone picks on you or someone else what do you do? How does it make you feel?

Journal 50 Write about a topic of your choice.

Journal 51 If you could be anyone in the world, who would you want to change places with for a day? Why? Tell me how you would spend your day.

Journal 52 Who is the smartest person you know? What makes them so smart? Why do you think they know about? What could they teach you?

Journal 53 Write a letter to a teacher you have or had in the past. Tell them how you have changed and what you have learned.

Journal 54 Tell me what you plan to do or hope to do during the summer.

Journal 55 How many people do you have in your family? Tell me about each of them. Who is your favorite family member?

Journal 56 What is your favorite Disney character or movie and why is it your favorite?

Journal 57 Everything you remember about this morning...

Journal 58 If I could be doing anything right now, I'd be... Why?

Journal 59 What confuses me about math is...

Journal 60 My responsibilites at home are... My responsibilities at school are...