These prompts, journal topics, and discussion topics were accumulated during fourteen years as a classroom teacher of English & ESL. I occasionally used them as full-day discussion topics where the students had the opportunity to practice “critical thinking”, writing, presenting and discussion. It allowed the students to vent while developing the hardest of the language acquisition skills “writing.”
About the Author
Reginald Grant, MSEd is a serial entrepreneur, consultant, speaker and author. He currently serves as Director of Corporate Relations for the Retired NFL Players Congress and is the CEO / co-founder of eSportsInstruction.
He is the author of several books including “Youth Entrepreneurial Impact Program”, “Success Stories: Insights by African American Men”, “Thoughts of an Urban Teacher”, “A Case For Bilingual Education”, “A Teacher’s View, Education in America” and “Reaching and Teaching African-American Males”. He has a Master’s in Education, Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). He was an English teacher for seventeen years. He is a state of California Certificated English Teacher and has served on the three State of California development/review panels for English assessment exams. He is committed to making a positive difference in the lives of others and sees education as the force for change. He is an alumni member of the University of Oregon and Sigma Tau Delta, International English Honor Society. He is also a former professional athlete (Jets & Miami, NFL & Ottawa, CFL).