How Do You Make Friends?
Have to write a how-to essay? Choose a fun topic like how to make a friend!
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The Enumerative Essay: Parking Spaces and Baseball
Enumerative essays, or partitive essays, begin with the number of parts (“There are nine ways to get to first safely”), and then each part becomes a paragraph in the body. The first paragraph in the body can explain how a hitter can whack the ball and get to first before anyone on the opposing team can catch the ball and throw it to first. The next paragraph can be about getting the hitter to first on a walk, and so forth.
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Wanted: Cowboy Poets
MIDDLE SCHOOL PROMPTS Heifers. Cowpokes. Cottonwoods. Hullabaloo. What do these words have in common? Well, if you were a cowboy poet, you would know! The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering is held in Elko, Nevada, each year. Singers and poets compete, attend workshops, and dance. Watch Randy Rieman recite his humorous poem about being “throwed” from…
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When Is a Sweet Pea Not a Sweet Pea?
MIDDLE SCHOOL PROMPTS Gardeners love to receive their new seed catalogs in the middle of winter. It gives them something to dream about and plan for. Not only are the photos of flowers and vegetables beautiful and inspiring but their descriptions are as well. Here’s the description of the Erewhon Sweet Pea from a Burpee…
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Do You Have a Spice Clock?
MIDDLE SCHOOL PROMPTS When you want to know what time it is, where do you look? Most likely, you tell time by clocks of some sort. But what if you told time by flowers, birds, or scents? Huh?
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Opinion Writing: Professional Matchmakers
SHARON’S BLOG Students who have a hard time writing about wars, politics, gender issues, and other heavy topics really warm up to writing opinions, so let’s give them something engaging to write about. After all, everyone has opinions. It’s Just Lunch is a dating service for businessmen and businesswomen. According to their Website, they’ve provided…
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Set Another Place at the Table
MIDDLE SCHOOL PROMPTS What’s the second thing that happens to Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit? He’s visited by twelve dwarves and one wizard. They come for tea (late afternoon) and stay for supper, eating the provisions in his pantry, taking up room in his tidy hobbit hole, and making noise. Bilbo is not happy. What…
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Three Ways to Be a Better Father
MIDDLE SCHOOL PROMPTS Many people want to be the best they can be at something, and when it comes to fathers, fatherhood.gov has some ideas. Here are three ideas from that website on how to be a good father:
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Too Late! It’s Gone!
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS Ever wonder what your life would be like without some of your favorite people or things? In P. D. James’ futuristic novel Children of Men, she wants people to consider what the world would be like without any new babies. So her novel is all about how no babies have been born…
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The Best Time to Make Friends
MIDDLE SCHOOL PROMPTS So, when is the best time to make friends? The famous actress Ethel Barrymore (great-aunt to Drew Barrymore) has an idea about that:
