Journal

Its time to choose a place to record your journeys! There are many types of journals available. You will want to look at a variety before you select your magical companion.

First look at shape and size. Most journals are rectangular and can be used either horizontally or vertically. Some journals have a hard cover and some have a soft cover. Some are bound with glue and some are joined with wire or plastic binders.

Common journal pages are white, off-white, light gray or brown. Pages can be thick and stiff, or light and flexible. Choose a journal that is affordable, easily carried and not too heavy. It may be your first journal ever, but it won’t be your last!

Personalize your journal!

On the cover page, create an inhabited letter using the first initial of your last name. Search for a letter style that you like. Enlarge the letter until it fits nicely on the cover page of your new journal.

Using a layout pencil first, transfer the letter to the cover or front page of your journal. Add people, animals and things that are expressive of you and your personality. On the inside of the back cover write your contact information: name, address, phone and email. Now your journal will follow you as you fill it with the wonders of the world.

You are ready to begin your journey!

Journal entries should become daily habits. Each day can start with a daily sketch, a thought or quote for the day, notes from a lecture or an article or work from a NEXT Journey. Take care to compose the layout of your entries so that it will be easy to go back and find something. Be sure to date and title the page in the same location each time.

In this activity, you will create a border for a first chapter entitled TOOLS. As you work through the activities of the journeys, you will come to the time when you will need to make a chapter heading entitled LANGUAGE. Later as you have mastered new design skills and methods of writing and drawing, you will begin journeys in DISCOVERY. As your understandings grow and the world becomes open to your investigations, you will be challenged with the ultimate tests in DESIGN Journeys.

Initiate your style!

There is so very much to know in a life time. Why not start learning on your own? What do you know and what do you not know? The world is an amazing place. Everywhere you turn at any age there is something to investigate. Take each day and think of something new that you have learned that very day. Walt Whitman, the American poet, wrote that the blade of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars. What idea amazes you? What new fact can you learn today? Find one. Write it in your journal.

• An enlarged first letter in a manuscript is called:
  • Vellum
  • Versal
• A person, place or thing in a letter is called an:
  • illuminated letter
  • inhabited letter
• Parchment is made from:
  • bark of trees
  • skins of animals
• A scriptorium has southern exposure:
  • true
  • false
• Bold letters are used for:
  • variety
  • emphasis
  • bordering