Why is Penzu so great?
While most journaling and blogging services focus on the public journal or diary, Penzu is all about privacy and sharing your entries only if you want to. It is extremely intuitive and easy to use, and adds a layer of security not offered by most competing services.
Activities:
· Students can start their own diary/journal
· When reading novels, have students choose a character and write a journal entry from that character’s perspective
· Have students create journal entries they can share with the rest of the class – good for the beginning of the year
· Have students create journal entries that are private
· Post entries around the class
· Introduce a journal entry every week that relates back to the unit/lesson
Key Features of a Diary: · Written in the first person · Refers to events that have happened · Refers to people in their life · Emotions - diaries tell how people feel about what is happening and has happened. (This is a key point for writing composition later on). · The diarist's particular point of view · Secrets - A diary is often a place where the writer can write down his or her thoughts and secrets in confidence.
Text Examples:
Fiction:
A Diary of a Teenage Girl – Pheobe Gloeckner
13 Reasons Why – Jay Asher
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keys
The Perks of being a Wallflower
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Dracula – Bram Stoker
Non-fiction:
The Journals of Sylvia Plath
The Diary of Anne Frank
Franz Kafka’s Diaries
Why is Penzu so great?
While most journaling and blogging services focus on the public journal or diary, Penzu is all about privacy and sharing your entries only if you want to. It is extremely intuitive and easy to use, and adds a layer of security not offered by most competing services.
Activities:
· Students can start their own diary/journal
· When reading novels, have students choose a character and write a journal entry from that character’s perspective
· Have students create journal entries they can share with the rest of the class – good for the beginning of the year
· Have students create journal entries that are private
· Post entries around the class
· Introduce a journal entry every week that relates back to the unit/lesson
Key Features of a Diary:
· Written in the first person
· Refers to events that have happened
· Refers to people in their life
· Emotions - diaries tell how people feel about what is happening and has happened. (This is a key point for writing composition later on).
· The diarist's particular point of view
· Secrets - A diary is often a place where the writer can write down his or her thoughts and secrets in confidence.
Text Examples:
Fiction:
A Diary of a Teenage Girl – Pheobe Gloeckner
13 Reasons Why – Jay Asher
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keys
The Perks of being a Wallflower
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Dracula – Bram Stoker
Non-fiction:
The Journals of Sylvia Plath
The Diary of Anne Frank
Franz Kafka’s Diaries