HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS You are a doctor, and you have been told that you must assist a patient with their suicide. If you don’t you will be breaking the law. Doctors in some American states, in Quebec, and in some Scandinavian countries are facing this increasingly ethical dilemma: Help patients kill themselves or be punished….
MIDDLE SCHOOL PROMPTS Edgar Allan Poe was born January 19, 1809. Though that is over 200 years ago, we still read his work today. He’s famous for his short stories and for poems like “The Raven.” (You know, that “Nevermore” poem.) In an essay, Poe explained how he was very careful to choose just the…
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. fought for racial equality in the 1950s and early 1960s before he was assassinated, but he did not advocate violence as a means of reaching this goal. Read the following excerpt taken from Stride Toward Freedom, written by him in 1958:
MIDDLE SCHOOL PROMPTS Advertising is everywhere. TV commercials bombard you 18 minutes out of every hour, but they are not the only places companies try to sell their products. Think of billboards, huge pictures of food products stuck to restaurant windows, and even your lowly cereal box. Yes, even after you’ve bought the cereal, you…
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS From Sunny to Frigid Buck is a dog who grew up in sunny San Diego, California, but suddenly finds himself thrust into the frigid world of the Klondike Gold Rush in the Yukon Territory, Canada, in the late 1890s. You can read about him in Jack London’s The Call of the Wild….
Samson’s life was filled with second chances to get it right. What would you like a second chance with? What would you like to do again and get right this time?
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” -Oprah Winfrey You remember Samson of Bible fame? You can read about him in Judges 13-16. God kept giving him chances to get it right, and Samson pretty much blew it every time by focusing on himself instead…
SHARON’S BLOG Do you have Christmas season memories you hold dear? Here are a few of mine: The year my mother saved her hard-earned cake-decorating money to buy a sewing machine for me when I was a college freshman. Little did I know that I would use that machine to sew little outfits for my…
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS Henry was a poet and a literature professor. He had a wife. He had children. He had a solid reputation, and his poetry was popular. And then his world caved in. One spring, his country became embroiled in a civil war. Families were split apart. Bands of thieves roamed the country, ostensibly…
MIDDLE SCHOOL PROMPTS Think back to that first Christmas. Sometime after Mary was visited by an angel, she traveled to her cousin Elizabeth’s house. Elizabeth, an old woman, was finally expecting her first child, and when she heard Mary’s greeting, she reported that her unborn baby “leaped in her womb” (Luke 21: 41 NIV). Elizabeth…
