Drones (UAVs) can be used in putting out wildfires, transporting medicine, and checking on crops. They can also be crashed into crowded areas by amateurs with no experience. Should amateurs be allowed to use UAVs?
Read about Brittany Maynard’s decision to end her life because of her terminal brain tumor. Then read about Kara Tippett who is also dying from cancer. Write about these women and their decisions.
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS Hyperbole is a lot of fun to read and to write. But what is it? Hyperbole (hi PER bo lee) is exaggeration, as in “He was as hefty as a whale” or “Her whining voice so electrified the air that it knocked migrating geese off their course.” To read examples of this figure of speech, click…
MIDDLE SCHOOL PROMPTS Writing is hard. My students tell me this, and I believe them. Writing makes their hands hurt. They don’t know what to write or how to write it. They have trouble coming up with topics. They’ll write if someone gives them a topic they are interested in. Or if someone gives them…
Rules. You find them everywhere, even on vacation. Make a silly or serious list of “Never do the following” advice for specific situations or locations.
Let everything that happens be recorded from an animal’s perspective, just as Matriarch in Alaska thinks humans seem like water fowl. Funnel events through the animal’s eyes.
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with a short story by Colombian-born Gabriel García Márquez. Write a short story based on his “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne begins The Scarlet Letter with a secret room and forgotten treasures. Create your own secret room. How will you get there? What will you find there?
How do you narrow down a topic that is too large? Find out how in this prompt as you narrow down the topic of fire for Fire Prevention Day.
People all over the world–ethnicities, colors, political persuasions, age groups–share similarities and differences. Watch this video and make lists of similarities and differences, that is, things that make us the same and things in which we are different from others.
