Question
You will write a creative poem based on "What's in My Journal" by William Stafford about crushes
Even if you have never kept a real journal, imagine what kinds of thoughts, memories, worries, secrets, hopes, and funny moments would live in yours. Requirements:
✅ 10 lines long
✅ Typed and submitted in Google Classroom
✅ Use specific, vivid details (small objects, feelings, memories)
✅ End on a thoughtful, emotional, or funny note in a 6th graders perspective
Even if you have never kept a real journal, imagine what kinds of thoughts, memories, worries, secrets, hopes, and funny moments would live in yours. Requirements:
✅ 10 lines long
✅ Typed and submitted in Google Classroom
✅ Use specific, vivid details (small objects, feelings, memories)
✅ End on a thoughtful, emotional, or funny note in a 6th graders perspective
Answers
GPT-4o mini
**What's in My Journal: Crush Edition**
In the corner of my page, a blue pen spins,
Doodled hearts and notes of when she grinned,
A half-eaten candy bar, like sweet little wishes,
The day she laughed at my joke, oh, how my heart swishes!
Outside in the sun, I spotted her glance,
A flutter of nerves—did she notice my stance?
Scrawled in shaky handwriting, a secret to confide,
“Maybe one day, I’ll be brave and not hide.”
Her favorite color, a soft shade of sky,
I scribble my dreams; maybe one day she’ll be mine.
In the corner of my page, a blue pen spins,
Doodled hearts and notes of when she grinned,
A half-eaten candy bar, like sweet little wishes,
The day she laughed at my joke, oh, how my heart swishes!
Outside in the sun, I spotted her glance,
A flutter of nerves—did she notice my stance?
Scrawled in shaky handwriting, a secret to confide,
“Maybe one day, I’ll be brave and not hide.”
Her favorite color, a soft shade of sky,
I scribble my dreams; maybe one day she’ll be mine.