My Fellow Students: A Graduation Speech
It’s that time of year again when everyone is interested in the future–your future! Write your own graduation speech using shared memories, quotes, personal anecdotes, advice, and encouragement.
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Coupons
Here’s a fun writing prompt you can do with your children, and it’s all about coupons. After everyone has written, read your prompts to each other and be enlightened.
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Mozilla Ousts CEO for Belief in Traditional Marriage: Write the Dialog
What happens when the CEO of a large corporation supports traditional marriage? Even though we weren’t there, we can imagine the dialog between people. Write your own dialog between an employee and Brendan Eichs, former CEO of Mozilla.
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Characterization: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Characterization requires giving a character positive attributes and a negative attribute, trait, habit, or failing. The bad guy is even more believable with at least one positive attribute. Create a good guy (or gal) or a nasty antagonist in this high school writing prompt.
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Define Your Terms
As a writer, it is important to define your terms. In fact, it’s one of your jobs. That way, all readers understand what you are talking about. Read two definitions of the term “Radical Christianity” and then define it yourself.
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Tell Me about Your Life as a Trapeze Artist: Interview into Narrative Essay
Interviewing someone is an incredible way to experience real, living history. Learn how to interview someone and then write it into a narrative essay.
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Be the Advice Columnist
Share your common sense and wisdom with this high school writing prompt encouraging you to be the advice columnist. Help a friend through a tough time.
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Your Resume
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS Who is this guy? “I can build moveable bridges for you and also blow them up. If you want your enemies’ bridges destroyed, I can do that as well. I’m pretty handy designing and making catapults and trebuchet for your defense or offense. In times of peace, count on me as an…
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Noah: Devoted or Demented?
Take a look at the recent Noah movie and others, whether religious movies or not, and compare them with the values and truths found in the Bible. Where are they similar? Where are they different? Write a compare-and-contrast movie review.
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Should We Ban the Word “Bossy”?
Girls with leadership skills are sometimes called bossy, which demeans their talents, goals, abilities, and even themselves, while boys with leadership skills are not considered bossy. They are considered future leaders. Should we ban the word “bossy”? How would you define “bossy”?
