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Ordinary People

Ordinary People . Daily Journals. Directions:. For each daily journal ( 20 total ), respond to the given quotation. Each journal is worth 1 point (20 total points) and will be collected at the end of the unit. Keep all journals in order in your daily notebook . Stay organized!

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Ordinary People

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  1. Ordinary People Daily Journals

  2. Directions: • For each daily journal (20 total), respond to the given quotation. • Each journal is worth 1 point (20 total points) and will be collected at the end of the unit. • Keep all journals in order in your daily notebook. Stay organized! • You will be given approximately 3-5 minutes to complete your daily journal. In the event of an absence, this journal power point is posted on my school website. • Keep your pen/pencil moving for the entire time! • There are no right or wrong answers with journal writing; simply write about your response to the quote and how it may be relevant to your life. • Similarly to how Ordinary People is written, work on your stream of consciousness and free association.

  3. Journal #1 - Pain “If it hurt, it mattered.” – John Green

  4. Journal #2 - Hurt “To hurt is as human as to breathe.” - J.K. Rowling

  5. Journal #3 - Remembering “Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.” - George R.R. Martin

  6. Journal #4 - Bullying “There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.” - Erma Bombeck

  7. Journal #5 - Blame “I’m sorry for blaming you for everything I couldn’t do, and I’ve hurt myself by hurting you.” ― Christina Aguliera

  8. Journal #6 - Family “When everything goes downhill, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family. ” - Jim Butcher

  9. Journal #7 - Parents “All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.” - Mitch Albom

  10. Journal #8 – Unconditional Love “Parents are the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you have to earn it.” - Anne Brashares

  11. Journal #9 - Love “That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.” - Deb Caletti

  12. Journal #10 - Sadness “There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

  13. ** BONUS JOURNAL ** - Guilt “Guilt is a destructive and ultimately pointless emotion” ― Lynn Crilly

  14. Journal #11 - Purpose “That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.” – Elizabeth Wurtzel

  15. Journal #12 - Trust “When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.” - Fiona Apple

  16. Journal #13 - Anger “So you try to think of someone else you're mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone.” – Ellen Hopkins

  17. Journal #14 - Siblings “Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring, quite often the hard way. - Pamela Dugdale

  18. Journal #15 - Loss “It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.” - Chuck Palahniuk

  19. Journal #16 - Mourning “You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

  20. Journal #17- Grief “It’s always hard to lose somebody. It leaves a hole in your heart that never grows back. ” ― Kevin Brooks

  21. Journal #18 - Optimism “Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.” - Dr. Seuss

  22. Journal #19 - Recovery “I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.” – Gail Caldwell

  23. Journal #20 - Control “You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.” ― A. J. Kitt

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