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.
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.
Interviewing someone is an incredible way to experience real, living history. Learn how to interview someone and then write it into a narrative essay.
Learn to grade your middle school or high school homeschool student’s essays with these practical videos from Writing with Sharon Watson. This video’s focus is point orders, with the subject matter of trash pulling them all together. Come join the fun!
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.
SHARON’S BLOG I recently witnessed this conversation between a teen and his mother: . …“The main character divorced his wife and married another woman,” the teen announced after he read his book… .“That’s not good,” his mother said. …“But he had to, Mom. His wife was really awful! She treated him really badly.” The son…
SHARON’S BLOG Your child has just handed you a completed essay, and you are ecstatic . . . until you realize you now have to grade it. Where do you begin? How do you evaluate this marvelous gift? Grading Essays Welcome to this exciting, first-in-a-series blog about grading your middle and high school students’ essays!…
Ever wonder why some writing is so confusing? Most likely they’ve choked their verbs and turned them into nouns. Make your writing clear with vivid verbs.
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.
Aren’t descriptions those boring parts you always skip reading? Learn how to use movement in your descriptions to engage your readers and make it interesting.
