Hobbit Day
September 22 is Hobbit Day! Let’s celebrate by writing a character into a portion of the hero’s journey, just as Bilbo refused his call to adventure from Gandalf.
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For the Love of Narnia and Middle Earth
SHARON’S BLOGNarnia and Middle Earth—what delightfully intriguing places to visit! Enjoy this compilation of activities involving C. S. Lewis’s Narnia and J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth. Suitable for anyone who is old enough to read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, other Narnia tales, The Hobbit, or The Lord of the Rings. Your students…
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Invisibility
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS Invisibility—is it a blessing or a curse? According to Irish legend, wearing green makes you invisible to leprechauns and their pinches and tricks. But wearing green is not the only way to become invisible. The scientist Griffin, in H. G. Wells’ The Invisible Man, makes himself invisible by experimenting with formulas and…
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Storywriting: Put Your Character into Hot Water, Part 2
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS In a recent tutorial, you practiced plunging your character into hot water with two powerful methods many writers use. You can find that prompt here.This week you’ll examine three more methods of getting your main character deep into a story. As Stanley Elkin reveals, “I would never write about someone who is…
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A Topic Sentence at the End?
You are familiar with topic sentences, how they come at the beginning of paragraphs and tell readers what the paragraph is all about. But what if the topic sentence came at the end of the paragraph? And what if that paragraph described something from a story? Topic sentence at the end Here’s part of a…
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We All Have a Disney Side?
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.
