Journal Topics for Clarifying Personal Positions

Sometimes, writing about a topic can help students form a better basis for a position they might hold on that topic. Following is a list of topics on which students can write anything they want. You might want to have them take a position, if that fits in with your lesson, or you might consider allowing it to be completely free.

1. TV Commercials
2. Divorce
3. Surviving Divorce
4. The Death Penalty
5. Prejudice and Racism
6. Movie Review
7. The Spread of Aids
8. Teen Suicide
9. Shoplifting
10. Getting Drunk
11. How important are sports in schools?
12. Smoking
13. How Our School Could Be Improved
14. A Cool Hobby or Sport
15. The Best Entertainer
16. Death
17. Date Rape
18. Prearranged Marriages
19. Competition
20. Peer Pressure
21. Gang Violence
22. Food
23. Should teens be sexually active?
24. Part-Time Jobs
25. How a Car Changes a Teen's Life
26. Homework
27. Honesty
28. Curfews