How to Avoid Plagiarism
We all know what cheating on a test looks like, but cheating on a writing assignment? That’s called plagiarism. Learn how to avoid it in this guest blog by Lily Iatridis of Fortuigence.com.
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Your Brain and the 10-Percent Myth
You’ve heard it before—that we only use ten percent of our brain. How true is this assertion? Or is it myth? Check out these links and write a short story based on a popular myth today.
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Your Job in the Circus
Are you the clown who entertains the crowds? Or the ringmaster who announces the acts and controls the flow of the entertainment? Is your life more like the wild animal tamer because there are people or emotions in your life you’d like to tame? Could you liken your life to the employee who cooks snacks for the crowds, taking care of their physical needs? Write about your life in terms of a circus employee.
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It’s Not Just Your Parents
Parents often limit students’ social media habits, and not the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends limits as well. If you had to cut back on a habit, how would you go about doing it? Explain your plan.
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When a Product Outlives Its Usefulness
Products and services can outlive their usefulness to us, like the door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman. What product or service has disappeared in your lifetime? Do you miss it? What do you think will disappear soon?
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Middle School Prompts | Middle School Tutorial | Sharon's Blog | teaching aids | tutorial | Writing Prompts
Create a Character from a Photo
You want to create a character for your story, but you’re stuck. You can’t think of one. Use this trick to get you thinking about characters.
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Choose Your Own Team
The hot soccer competition in the 2014 FIFA World Cup finals is heating up. If you were to belong to a team, sports or not, what team would you choose? What would be the criteria for being admitted to the team? Which position or part would you play?
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Proofreading: Three Methods to Make it Easier
Proofreading is not easy, but we can make it a little easier for our students. Let them try these two proven methods of proofreading that professional writers use.
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The Talking Shoes
When was the last time your shoes talked to you? By using anthropomorphism, meaning “in the form of a human,” you can make objects or animals talk, plan, cry, and do other things humans do.
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Create Your Own Guide to Popularity
Popularity. What makes people popular? What does it take to be popular? Write a list of traits, habits, or qualities that seem to be true for popular people.
