MIDDLE SCHOOL PROMPTS Do you want to time travel? What was it like when your ancestors first set foot on American soil? What did the Egyptian pyramids look like when they were first built, gleaming with layers of gold? How did Jesus perform the miracle of healing the ten lepers? When you are twenty years…
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS “Within 30 years, we will have the means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.” -Vernor Vinge, in “The Coming Technological Singularity” Raymond Kurzweil, a futurist, inventor, and author of books on artificial intelligence, believes that “we’re approaching a moment when computers will become intelligent, and not…
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.
SHARON’S BLOG 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….
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…
