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5 New Prompts for a New Year
SHARON’S BLOG
The beginning of a new year is a special time when your students can look back on their past year and cherish their hopes and dreams for the future. But do they know how to express those?
Here are five prompts geared to help them express their ideas through opinion, personal narrative, personification, and so on, as they think about and evaluate their lives.
Suitable for students in grades 5 – 12.
Let’s do this . . .
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Do You Have Story Writers? They Will LOVE These Fiction Prompts!
You know you have them—those story writers who won’t come out of their bedrooms, the ones who faint at writing essays but love writing stories.
They spend hours creating fictional worlds and populating them with characters in trouble who are looking for a happy ending.
Fiction is a powerful tool to influence readers’ hearts. Let’s equip our fiction writers with practices and insights that will give them success. You can read more about how authors grab readers’ hearts here.
As an added bonus, students who learn how to write more effectively in the world of fiction are absorbing communication skills they will use in their essay and research papers as well.
Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein before she was 19 years old. Christopher Paolini was only 15 when he wrote the first words to his best-selling Eragon. And Jane Austen wrote her first novel at age 14. When will your student be signing autographs?
These prompts are geared for students in 7th-12th grade. Use them now or bookmark them for later. (more…)
High-anxiety days need this remedy
So much anxiety about the future. Emotions running hot. Fearful thoughts about what lies ahead.
As I pondered these for our nation, the world, and my own life, I was troubled.
I recently heard a radio pastor mention that the Lord says one thing to us more than anything else: (more…)
3 Powerful Persuasion Strategies that Advertisers and Politicians Use
Do you ever wonder why some ads and political campaigns are so powerful? There’s a reason for that: They use certain strategies to move their viewers.
It’s important to learn these strategies so you can see when they are being used on you!
In this tutorial, you’ll learn three powerful tactics, read examples, and then write your own ad for a product or a politician.
This tutorial is geared for students in 7th – 12th grade.
Ready? Let’s do this . . .
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