Show School and Home j Daryl Secretary Utah Education Why keep a Some children would rather get stomped on the toes by a dray horse than write a three-sentence thank-you letter to Aunt Arlene for the birthday It's tough to get kids enthusiastic about The word is getting that many young people become excited about keeping These are daily personal records of experiences and Doris an Oregon high school English gives some classes 10 to 15 minutes of each period to write in She never reads these personal writings-unless the students invite her to do One student in the class learned some valuable lessons about He said he read his journal six or seven and that it opened his eyes to some problems that he found recurring in his The journal showed him as he really is-and how he could The teacher said that as the school year more and more students find themselves writing in their journals outside of class These young people write about their little triumphs and u hat they hope for in the their feelings about some news event or description of athletic events and personal They are discouraged from merely recording mundane information such as when they got out of bed that day or what they ate for breakfast-unless there's something significant about an otherwise dull As students become disciplined to the regular writing that a well-kept journal they may become more about something new is like telling a friend about said one When a young person develops that kind of feeling about chances are writing will become a Parents can encourage this kind of writing by providing a which may not be anything more than an inexpensive Other needs the young writer will have the right to privacy and IS a night when the TV and stereo are |