New Species: Have You Heard of Sparklemuffin?
MIDDLE SCHOOL PROMPTS Every year, paleontologists (those who study fossils or life in prehistoric times) find evidence of a species we didn’t know about before, like a new species of terror bird (Llallawavis scagliai) in Argentina. Its skeleton shows it was ten feet...
Jesse Owens Proved Him Wrong
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS Adolf Hitler, chancellor of Germany in the 1930s and 1940s, believed that Black people were inferior. He thought they were savages and had less intellectual power than white people. So when a super-fast runner named Jesse Owens proved him wrong and...
Personal Narrative: Not Quite How I Remembered It
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS Have you ever visited a house you used to live in or a place you used to visit as a child? Does it seem smaller to you or different in some way? In this passage from “Remembrance, Ohio,” Ray Bradbury describes what it’s like to go back to a...
Miracles
MIDDLE SCHOOL PROMPTS Mr. George McWhirter Fotheringay doesn't believe in miracles. At least, that's what H. G. Wells tells us in his short story "The Man Who Could Work Miracles." First published in 1898, it tells of a man who didn't believe in miracles but ended up...
The Legend of Linda the Lonely
MIDDLE SCHOOL PROMPTS "Long, long ago, in a lavish lodge near the village of Liverwurst, lived a lovely lass called Linda the Lonely. Linda was lonely because, ever since she was a little girl, she had beenlocked in the lodge by her wicked uncle, Lord Ludwig of...
National Park Service Centennial High School Writing Prompts
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS Have you seen the presidents on Mount Rushmore? Walked among the giant sequoias of Yosemite National Park? Stood on the precipice of the Grand Canyon? Explored an underwater shipwreck as a Junior Ranger? The United States' National Park Service...
Doctors and Assisted Suicide
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS You are a doctor, and you have been told that you must assist a patient with their suicide. If you don't you will be breaking the law. Doctors in some American states, in Quebec, and in some Scandinavian countries are facing this increasingly...
Edgar Allan Poe and “The Bells”
MIDDLE SCHOOL PROMPTS Edgar Allan Poe was born January 19, 1809. Though that is over 200 years ago, we still read his work today. He’s famous for his short stories and for poems like “The Raven.” (You know, that “Nevermore” poem.) In an essay, Poe explained how he was...
Violence and Martin Luther King Jr.
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. fought for racial equality in the 1950s and early 1960s before he was assassinated, but he did not advocate violence as a means of reaching this goal. Read the following excerpt taken from Stride Toward Freedom, written...
Adjectives and Your Cereal Box
MIDDLE SCHOOL PROMPTS Advertising is everywhere. TV commercials bombard you 18 minutes out of every hour, but they are not the only places companies try to sell their products. Think of billboards, huge pictures of food products stuck to restaurant windows, and even...
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