- Where
would you move tomorrow if you had the chance? Explain your choice of
location.
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- You
are at a theater viewing a very scary movie. Describe the reactions
of three people in the theater who are reacting differently. Be clear
and concise.
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- Write
five endings for a statement beginning “Someday…” Pick one of these
and do a 250-500 word short story about it.
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- Describe
how being blind would change your life.
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- Write
a 250-500 word short story about a person who survived a hurricane but
lost everything they owned.
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- Tell
us about the scariest story you have ever read. Explain how it made
you feel, what in the story “got to you.”
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- “Down
in the dumps” is an idiom. Write five other idioms and their meanings.
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- Write
a dialogue between two people who are very angry with each other. Have
the two people deal with and express their anger in different ways.
Use no profanity.
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- Think
of a food you hate. Now imagine that you have been put in charge of
a multi-million dollar advertising campaign to promote this food. Write
a tempting description of the food and a basic commercial.
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- Write
exact and explicit instructions on how to tie your shoes. Imagine that
you are explaining to someone who is blind and you are not allowed to
touch them to illustrate the steps.
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- What
problems would you have if all the round objects in your life became
square?
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- If
you could have one animal from the zoo and enough food to feed it for
a year, what animal would you take home, why, and what would the first
day home be like? 250-500 words.
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- Write
a short article about the stress of being a student and include a minimum
of three constructive ways of dealing with that stress. 250-500 words.
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- You
will be living on the International Space Station for three months.
You are only allowed to bring one pound of personal items with you.
What would they be and why? Give details.
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- You
overhear two people in a restaurant whispering to each other. One says
“the eagle has landed.” What could it possibly mean? 250-500 words.
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- You
are being given the “Golden Pen Prize” for your creative writing. Write
your acceptance speech.
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- List
five possible dinner disasters (burnt food, undercooked spaghetti, etc.).
Write a story about the dinner disaster you consider to be the worst.
250-500 words.
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- Write
a short story which includes words that will make your reader feel freezing
cold. Remember to appeal to all five sense.
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- Write
as many reasons as you can for not doing one of the assigned journal
entries. Be creative but don’t use obscene language.
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- Describe
five things that students can do to help each other. Describe something
that students can do to help teachers.
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- If
you could watch only one hour of television, what would you watch and
why? 250-500 words.
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- A
strange parrot has just landed on your left shoulder. It told you a
story. Write down that story.
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- Some
students think of creative but silly excuses for not completing homework.
Write three creative but silly excuses for not completing an entire
load of your own homework.
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- “Today
is your lucky day!” This is the message you find in your fortune cookie.
If the fortune were to come true, what would happen on this day?
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- Invent
a cartoon super hero or heroine. Try to make this character different
from all other in the genre. What makes this one special? 250-500 words.
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- Write
a short story using the opening line “Beauty is only skin deep…” 250-500
words.
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- Write
5 limericks with the same meter (beats per line) as the following: There
once was a lion named Perry/whose coat was all bald and not hairy/he
went to a pig/who made him a wig/now Perry’s a cat that’s quite merry.
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- List
five things that you would change about your school. Pick one of these
and write an article about how you would bring this change about and
why it is needed.
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- Name
something very large you would like to have and something very large
you would hate to have. Write a story about a person who has both. 250-500
words.
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- Think
about your first day at college. Make a list of suggestions on how you,
realistically, would like to have been treated or how new students should
be treated.
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- Where
would you go if you had the chance to take one trip on a time machine?
Why? 250-500 words.
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- You
notice that your next-door neighbor, Mrs. Oodoodn’tsh, who sits on a
broken down couch on her porch all day and most of the night, seems
to have grown an extra arm. 250-500 words.
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- You
have finally landed that “perfect date” that you’ve been perusing for
a long time. The person of your attention will be arriving at your place
in three hours. Give the plans for the perfect evening with that person
based on the idea that you want them to come back. Be nice!
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- Write
a journal entry your great-grandparent might have written when they
were in school. Think about all the things that were different then
such as clothing, food, vehicles, prices, morals and mores, etc.
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- What
companies would be affected if humans had no hair? Write about a life
in a hairless world. 250-500 words.
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- Close
your eyes. Make a list of the sounds you hear. Now circle the sounds
you don’t remember hearing before. Listen again and try to add three
more sounds to your list.
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- Invent
a new holiday that will be observed every year in the U.S.A. Suggest
foods and activities that might become traditions for future generations.
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- If
summer never arrived this year, what activities would you not be able
to do that you usually do in the summer? What would you do instead?
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- The
characters in books have goals. Do you think cartoon characters have
goals? Describe the goals of the cartoon character you created earlier
and explain their importance.
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- Create
five Haiku. Remember that a Haiku has 17 syllables, usually in an arrangement
of 5/7/5 . Make these Haiku interconnected if possible.
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- You
just came back from a camping trip in which you received several mosquito
bites and chigger bites in “strategic” places. Explain to someone in
a telephone conversation where they are without telling them exactly
where they are.
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- Describe
the interior of your car, if you have one, or your room if you don’t
have a car. Be precise and exact. Give details. 250-500 words.
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- Make
a list of 20 gloomy words and use them in a gloomy story. 250-500 words.
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- Make
a list of 20 happy words and use them in a happy story. 250-500 words.
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- Write
about a time when someone hurt your feelings.
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- Do
you know what to do when the fire alarm sounds? Write the procedures
that should be followed when the alarm sounds.
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- Think
of your favorite character from a book. Write a paragraph about that
character telling the reader how the two of you are alike and another
on how the two of you are different.
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- You
have won a “magic” prize. You are allowed to spend five minutes in a
magic shop and keep anything that you carry out at the end of that time.
What would you do to prepare for your shopping spree and what would
you look for first, and why?
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