Gender-Neutral Language in Writing
Gender-neutral language is tricky, especially with singular pronouns like “everyone.” This free lesson from The Power in Your Hands shows students how to be gender neutral in their writing.
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A Sonnet: Be the Shakespeare
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS Today you get to be Shakespeare and write a sonnet. A sonnet is a poem of fourteen lines. The last two lines, however, are separate and either sum up the rest of the poem or provide a new twist, as does the sonnet below. Let’s look at Shakespeare’s Sonnet 62. The letters…
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The Melding of Humans and Technology
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS “Within 30 years, we will have the means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.” -Vernor Vinge, in “The Coming Technological Singularity” Raymond Kurzweil, a futurist, inventor, and author of books on artificial intelligence, believes that “we’re approaching a moment when computers will become intelligent, and not…
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Perfection: What Is It, and Do We Really Want it?
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS Is physical perfection possible? If it is, do we really want it? And if it isn’t, should we pretend to be perfect? These are some of the questions teen Haleigh Hohman asks in her Facebook video after finding a very interesting button on her new phone that she calls the “magic button.”
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Who Was at the Resurrection?
Who was at the resurrection? Choose a narrator (real or imagined) and write some part of the resurrection through his or her eyes. Use first person to tell your story.
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5 Powerful Persuasion Strategies for Your Writers
SHARON’S BLOG I love to bring you examples of effective writing so your students can use them, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to a joint meeting of the U. S. Congress is an excellent example of persuasive writing. He used many powerful strategies in his speech, five of which we’ll delve into today….
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A Topic Sentence at the End?
You are familiar with topic sentences, how they come at the beginning of paragraphs and tell readers what the paragraph is all about. But what if the topic sentence came at the end of the paragraph? And what if that paragraph described something from a story? Topic sentence at the end Here’s part of a…
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Robert Frost: Good Fences Make Good Neighbors
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS In 1961, famous American poet Robert Frost did something no other poet had ever done. He read one of his poems for a presidential inauguration. John F. Kennedy personally asked Frost to read a poem for the inauguration, and Frost recited his famous poem “The Gift Outright.”
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Create a Visual Aid Like Saint Patrick Did
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS Are you wearing green? Saint Patrick, whom we celebrate March 17, is famous for teaching the ancient Irish about Christianity in the fifth century. Legend has it that in order to teach people about the Holy Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), Patrick used a three-leaf shamrock to show how each leaf…
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Didn’t They Ever Watch Jurassic Park?
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS Japanese scientists are hot on the trail of the extinct wooly mammoth’s DNA, which is available from tissue preserved in Russia. What do they want to do with the DNA? They want to clone it and, in about five years, make a modern mammoth. Ryan Phelan of Revive & Restore would like…
