Writing with Sharon Watson-Easy-to-use Homeschool Writing and Literature Curriculum

Fun with Morse Code

MIDDLE SCHOOL PROMPTS.

In the mid-1800s, Samuel Morse helped create a code that was used in his new system of communication: telegraphs.

You may be familiar with the Morse code for “SOS”:

· · · ― ― ― · · ·

(or “dot dot dot, dash dash dash, dot dot dot”).

The three dots stand for “S” and the three dashes stand for “O.”

In Frank Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey’s memoir Cheaper by the Dozen,

HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS

Today you get to be Shakespeare and write a sonnet.

A sonnet is a poem of fourteen lines. The last two lines, however, are separate and either sum up the rest of the poem or provide a new twist, as does the sonnet below.

Let’s look at Shakespeare’s Sonnet 62. The letters at the end of each line are Shakespeare’s rhyme scheme, but ignore that for now. Take a few moments and read the sonnet. Then I’ll explain it:

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 old, what will the world be like?

One famous scientist, Stephen Hawking, believed people can time travel if they

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