SHARON’S BLOG Can your children and teens clearly express their ideas about God? Students in my classes always have the hardest time when asked to write about God. They simply cannot share their thoughts, experiences, definitions of religious terms, or what God means to them. These are difficult concepts to grasp and communicate, and they…
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS Have you ever swum (swum? That’s a word?) a mile? How about two or three miles? Diana Nyad, 64, made the more-than-100-mile trip from Cuba to Florida—by swimming the whole way! Hallucinating from exhaustion and hypothermia, stung by a jellyfish, her throat closing up from the sea’s salt water, she kept on…
SHARON’S BLOG Picnics. Parades. Fireworks. Looking for ways to help your middle school and high school students focus on America’s Independence Day? Look no further! Enjoy this variety of prompts {and your Independence Day celebrations}.
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS Do you know how much we owe to William Tyndale? He knew he could be killed for what he was doing, but he did it anyway. Tyndale translated the Bible in the 1500s from Latin into the people’s English so they could understand it, and it cost him his life.
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS Looking for a way for your teens to think deeply about some of today’s issues? This week’s prompts will give your teens a chance to look at current events, express their opinions, and practice persuading readers. Each one of these prompts has a link so your teens can read more about the…
SHARON’S BLOG Who says you can’t play with your food? Here is a bundle of five prompts on food-related topics that will get your middle school and high school students writing. Whether they’re telling personal stories, trying to persuade readers, or expressing an opinion, your students will enjoy sinking their teeth into these prompts.
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS Holocaust Remembrance Day is when we bring to mind the people—most of them Jews—who were exterminated by the millions in World War II by the Nazis. Maybe you’ve read The Diary of a Young Girl (or The Diary of Anne Frank), a real diary of a young girl just turned thirteen. In…
SHARON’S BLOG Your word choices can have a huge impact on your readers. Or your words can muddle them. Let me give you an example. If I write that a toddler is a good eater, I suddenly have a communication problem. The word “good” is not specific enough. Does “good” mean that the toddler is…
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS The Colorado House of Representatives voted to remove the words “illegal alien” from their state laws and substitute them with “undocumented immigrant” or “foreign national.” Stephen Lebsock, the Democratic Representative behind the bill, says that “aliens are from other planets. We should not be referring to human beings as aliens,” according to the…
SHARON’S BLOG Burros, tall tales, and fears: You can find them all in the Grand Canyon. In 1893, the Grand Canyon was made a Forest Reserve and then later a National Monument. It became a national park in 1919, just three years after the National Park Service was formed. Which prompt about this amazing formation will your…
