HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS I was shopping one day last week when I heard an elderly woman say to her daughter, “I’d like to find a white sweater.” Her daughter came back with, “Oh, Mother, you always do this to me. You know we can’t find white after Labor Day.” I thought, Hmm. That daughter is…
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS You have an idea for a story but don’t know how to get it going. Or you would like to write a story but are out of ideas. When you write a story, you have to throw a lot of things at your main character, things he or she would rather not…
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS In a story, clothing can be the author’s way of telling us what kind of character we’re reading about. What are they wearing? Judging real people by their clothing might not be too smart, but authors rely on readers to judge characters based on their characters’ clothing. For instance, someone in a black…
The dialog in comic book speech bubbles is different from the dialog in books. Change the dialog from a book into words that will go into speech bubbles.
Car commercials are getting more intriguing, crossing the line from ads to mini-movies, complete with characters, plot, and secret missions. Write your own commercial for a vehicle of your choice.
Characterization requires giving a character positive attributes and a negative attribute, trait, habit, or failing. The bad guy is even more believable with at least one positive attribute. Create a good guy (or gal) or a nasty antagonist in this high school writing prompt.
Perhaps you didn’t know you have a Disney side. In this Disney Parks television commercial, you’ll find an older man who shows his Disney side by becoming a Disney character—but at an awkward moment!
Gals, which Disney princess are you most like? Guys, which Disney hero are you most like?
Okay, maybe you don’t have a Disney side, but you certainly are very much like any other number of fictional characters.
SHARON’S BLOG Literature might seem like one of those courses in which pulling teeth is involved. You assign a poem, play, short story, or novel to read, and you immediately encounter resistance. It’s hard, they say. It’s boring, they complain. The lawyer in them tries to make a deal with you: “I’ll read these more…
