Happy Birthday, Joseph Conrad!
Let’s celebrate the birth date of Joseph Conrad by reading a passage from his famous Heart of Darkness and then writing one of our own. Ready?
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A Strange Thing to Be Thankful For
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS When Corrie ten Boom was arrested with her family in February 1944 for helping Jews escape the Nazis, she and her sister were sent to the women’s section of a harsh concentration camp. There she found infestations of vermin: lice and fleas. Instead of being angry about the vermin, she decided to…
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What Is Happening in this Yosemite Photo?
Look at this photo taken in Yosemite National Park and use it to springboard you into writing a story, journal entry, or other type of writing.
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Good Pirate, Bad Pirate
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS Robert Louis Stevenson is the author of Treasure Island, The Black Arrow, Kidnapped, A Child’s Garden of Verses, the deliciously creepy The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde based on a real person, and much more. You can learn more about him here. Pirate in disguise In Treasure Island, young…
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Are You Ready for NaNoWriMo?
Would you like to write a novel in a month? Then NaNoWriMo is the event for you! Write down your ideas for a novel you would like to write.
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How to Convince an Audience: Opinion versus Persuasion
Your students will learn the difference between opinion versus persuasion with this fun infographic about dogs and an easy writing exercise.
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Drones: Helpful Tools or Accidents Waiting to Happen?
Drones (UAVs) can be used in putting out wildfires, transporting medicine, and checking on crops. They can also be crashed into crowded areas by amateurs with no experience. Should amateurs be allowed to use UAVs?
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His Hands Were Bigger Than Shovels: Hyperbole
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS Hyperbole is a lot of fun to read and to write. But what is it? Hyperbole (hi PER bo lee) is exaggeration, as in “He was as hefty as a whale” or “Her whining voice so electrified the air that it knocked migrating geese off their course.” To read examples of this figure of speech, click…
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Write a Story from an Animal’s Perspective
Let everything that happens be recorded from an animal’s perspective, just as Matriarch in Alaska thinks humans seem like water fowl. Funnel events through the animal’s eyes.
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Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with this Family Writing Prompt
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with a short story by Colombian-born Gabriel García Márquez. Write a short story based on his “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings.”
