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Practical, easy-to-use writing and literature courses for homeschools, Christian schools, and co-ops by Sharon Watson

Write about the Impossible in a Sci-Fi Story

Write about the Impossible in a Sci-Fi Story

HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS

Jules Verne, considered one of the fathers of science-fiction (sci-fi), liked to write about going places people couldn’t actually go to or had not been before.

He wrote about exploring the core of the earth in Journey to the Center of the Earth. His fantastic tale 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea takes readers deep, deep into the ocean in a submarine, a fairly new invention. From the Earth to the Moon shoots adventurers to the moon in a metal rocket long before space travel had been invented.

Sci-fi writers like to

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What Is Freedom?

What Is Freedom?

HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS

Melba was fifteen years old when she was chased by men who wanted to hang her. It was the first day of racial integration in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957, and fighting for her life was just the first of her year of torture at the hands of students, parents, teachers, and members of the town.

Tortured

And when I say torture, I mean

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‘Twas Brillig: Create a New Word

‘Twas Brillig: Create a New Word

MIDDLE SCHOOL PROMPTS

 

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

What?!

 That’s the first verse of the poem “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll. You can read the whole crazy poem by clicking here.

Surprisingly, if you read the whole poem, you really can tell what is going on, despite all the new words.

 Lewis Carroll, author of the Alice in Wonderland stories, enjoyed making up words, as you can tell by his poem. In fact, one of the words he concocted for this poem is a word we still use today:

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