Reading descriptions can be super boring, but yours don’t have to be. Try this middle school prompt to learn two secrets to exciting descriptive writing!
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS Is physical perfection possible? If it is, do we really want it? And if it isn’t, should we pretend to be perfect? These are some of the questions teen Haleigh Hohman asks in her Facebook video after finding a very interesting button on her new phone that she calls the “magic button.”
Who was at the resurrection? Choose a narrator (real or imagined) and write some part of the resurrection through his or her eyes. Use first person to tell your story.
Many people are mentioned in the biblical account of Jesus’ resurrection. What story could they tell? Choose one of them and write their story, or create a new character and tell the story through them.
I love to bring you examples of effective writing so your students can use them, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to a joint meeting of the U. S. Congress is an excellent example of persuasive writing. He used many powerful strategies in his speech, five of which we’ll delve into today. Your students…
You are familiar with topic sentences, how they come at the beginning of paragraphs and tell readers what the paragraph is all about. But what if the topic sentence came at the end of the paragraph? And what if that paragraph described something from a story? Topic sentence at the end Here’s part of a…
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS In 1961, famous American poet Robert Frost did something no other poet had ever done. He read one of his poems for a presidential inauguration. John F. Kennedy personally asked Frost to read a poem for the inauguration, and Frost recited his famous poem “The Gift Outright.”
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS Are you wearing green? Saint Patrick, whom we celebrate March 17, is famous for teaching the ancient Irish about Christianity in the fifth century. Legend has it that in order to teach people about the Holy Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), Patrick used a three-leaf shamrock to show how each leaf…
Everyone has stuff they don’t like doing or stuff they’re afraid of.
That’s true for Howie Mandel, comedian and former host of the TV show “Deal or No Deal.” He hates shaking hands with people because of all the germs he can get from one handshake. Now he uses a fist bump.
MIDDLE SCHOOL PROMPTS Some people believe they’re boring. They have no story to tell. They’ve done nothing interesting. But a wise man named Ryter thinks they’re wrong. In Rodman Philbrick’s The Last Book in the Universe, old man Ryter is talking to the young teen Spaz, the main character. Here’s what Ryter says to him:
