Using a word processing program students are to enter a journal entry for ten days. This activity is to be completed at home on the computer. Students may import appropiate graphics. The journal entries are to be written in first person as students assume the role of a pioneer youth. Students should save their entries each day so that the journal becomes cumulative.
Entries are to be dated, and descriptions of weather are to be included.
A title page should be added with the student's name and a drawing that was created with the paint program. At the end of the ten day period the journals are to be printed and brought into school. The journals will be shared in class. Students write clear sentences and paragraphs that develop a central idea. Students progress through the stages of the writing process, including prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing multiple drafts.