CCSS ELA Standard: 8.W.3.a

What is bobbing for apples like… for an apple?

Let’s write from multiple perspectives using an old timey holiday photo!

Students use 12 random phrases to create a story that takes place at the zoo.

Students use 12 random phrases to create a story that takes place at school.

Students pick from 12 random phrases to create a story about an incident in a restaurant.

Students use 12 random phrases to write a story that takes place in at an amusement park.

Students use 12 random phrases to create a story that takes place in at a magical school.

Students use 12 random phrases to create a story that takes place in space!

What if an inanimate object could express thanks for a special person in your life? What would it write?

Let’s take a classic Christmas poem and remix it to work with another holiday!

We’ll take two seemingly unrelated pieces of content (say volcanoes and the human body) and then build analogies to connect the two ideas. In the end, students can create a skit, comic, or story relating the two concepts.

We tell students to “show, not tell” in their writing, but this advice isn’t effective until they experience the difference. In this video, we’ll put a famous character (of students’ choosing) into a mundane situation and develop a fun scene to show off their main traits.