A Book Every Christian Should Read
If you were to recommend one book that every Christian should read, what book would it be? If it’s too general to think of “every Christian,” substitute the words “your friends.”
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Your Brain and the 10-Percent Myth
You’ve heard it before—that we only use ten percent of our brain. How true is this assertion? Or is it myth? Check out these links and write a short story based on a popular myth today.
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Your Job in the Circus
Are you the clown who entertains the crowds? Or the ringmaster who announces the acts and controls the flow of the entertainment? Is your life more like the wild animal tamer because there are people or emotions in your life you’d like to tame? Could you liken your life to the employee who cooks snacks for the crowds, taking care of their physical needs? Write about your life in terms of a circus employee.
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Choose Your Own Team
The hot soccer competition in the 2014 FIFA World Cup finals is heating up. If you were to belong to a team, sports or not, what team would you choose? What would be the criteria for being admitted to the team? Which position or part would you play?
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The Talking Shoes
When was the last time your shoes talked to you? By using anthropomorphism, meaning “in the form of a human,” you can make objects or animals talk, plan, cry, and do other things humans do.
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Create Your Own Guide to Popularity
Popularity. What makes people popular? What does it take to be popular? Write a list of traits, habits, or qualities that seem to be true for popular people.
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3 Powerful Tools for Writing Persuasively
Writing a persuasion essay is all about the reader. Give your student these three powerful keys to writing that essay and enjoy the writing activity that follows.
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The Problem with Storage Units
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS Self-storage units are springing up in the United States like mushrooms in a warm, shady, moist lawn. You see those units around town with the garage doors lined up in row after row and perhaps wonder what could be behind all those doors. When people have too much furniture or too many…
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Problem to Solution: Invasive Species
The Florida Everglades is being threatened by new and invasive species of plants and animals that have no natural predators. Write your solution to this problem.
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The Introduction’s Super Power
Introductions can be boring. Super boring. Learn how your students can powerfully engage their readers with this writing super power in their introductions.
