by Sharon Watson | Nov 5, 2013 | High School Prompts, Sharon's Blog, Writing Prompts
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS
Young Ender Wiggin, in Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, is smallish for his age, smart, and a bit of a misfit. In the movie of the same name by Summit Entertainment, Colonel Graff wants Ender to remain a misfit and even manipulates events so the other young students will hate Ender. Graff doesn’t want Ender to rely on anyone and even cuts off his emails to and from home so the young boy can focus on his studies.
Despite the people in his life who try to keep Ender from forming relationships, he creates his own network of friends and allies as he moves through the classes and battle games. He realizes, as does the psychiatrist Major Anderson, [>>]
by Sharon Watson | Nov 3, 2013 | Middle School Prompts, Sharon's Blog, Writing Prompts
MIDDLE SCHOOL PROMPTS
Teachers in the Jiangdu District of China know how important it is to hug their students. In fact, they hug their kindergarten students twice a day . . . as long as the parents (more…)
by Sharon Watson | Nov 2, 2013 | Middle School Prompts, Middle School Tutorial, Sharon's Blog, tutorial, Writing Prompts
MIDDLE SCHOOL PROMPTS
You know that boring description in the last book you read for school?
No, wait. You didn’t read it. You skipped the description because it was so dull.
It’s time to fix that. Here’s a paragraph from H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds. Notice the specific and powerful verbs he uses to keep this description of refugees moving along: (more…)
by Sharon Watson | Oct 27, 2013 | High School Prompts, Sharon's Blog, Writing Prompts
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS
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: (more…)
by Sharon Watson | Oct 20, 2013 | Middle School Prompts, Sharon's Blog, Writing Prompts
MIDDLE SCHOOL PROMPTS
Yes, folks, some people live in old, repurposed shipping containers—those huge, metal, rectangular boxes used for receiving goods from overseas.
You can read more about repurposing shipping containers and see some cool pictures here.
They are also being used for restaurants, art galleries, and more.
Other people choose to live in micro-units (tiny, tiny apartments) as small as 250 square feet. That’s 25′ x 10′. Measure that out in your house and see how much space that takes up.
If you were to live in a recycled shipping container or in a space as small as these micro-units, how would you arrange your living space? But wait, there’s more!
by Sharon Watson | Oct 14, 2013 | High School Prompts, Sharon's Blog, Writing Prompts
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS
Everyone’s got them. No one is immune to problems.
Here’s Michael J. Fox, a famous actor, with his take on his debilitating and life-threatening medical condition:
Parkinson’s has made me a better person. . . . Life delivered me a catastrophe, but I found a richness of soul.
But wait, there’s more!
