Happy Birthday, Joseph Conrad!
Let’s celebrate the birth date of Joseph Conrad by reading a passage from his famous Heart of Darkness and then writing one of our own. Ready?
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Good Pirate, Bad Pirate
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS Robert Louis Stevenson is the author of Treasure Island, The Black Arrow, Kidnapped, A Child’s Garden of Verses, the deliciously creepy The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde based on a real person, and much more. You can learn more about him here. Pirate in disguise In Treasure Island, young…
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The Memory of Snow
In Lois Lowry’s The Giver, an elder gives the memory of snow to Jonas who has never seen or heard of snow. Describe something physical to someone who has never seen or experienced it before.
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A Moving Description?
Aren’t descriptions those boring parts you always skip reading? Learn how to use movement in your descriptions to engage your readers and make it interesting.
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When Is a Sweet Pea Not a Sweet Pea?
MIDDLE SCHOOL PROMPTS Gardeners love to receive their new seed catalogs in the middle of winter. It gives them something to dream about and plan for. Not only are the photos of flowers and vegetables beautiful and inspiring but their descriptions are as well. Here’s the description of the Erewhon Sweet Pea from a Burpee…
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Waxing Eloquent Over a Piece of Cheese?
When was the last time you wrote a whole paragraph about how a piece of cheese tasted? Here’s Michael Paterniti’s description after tasting an artisanal cheese in The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World’s Greatest Piece of Cheese:
Oh, it was a strong cheese, a Herculean cheese, you could tell that immediately, tangy and tart, melting and then flaring again.
