| 1) Have the students randomly choose two | | | | live? Who or what would you miss from home? |
| nouns, two verbs, two adjectives and two | | | | Write a story or a poem about your |
| adverbs. Write these eight words on the | | | | adventure.4) Have each student choose |
| board. Tell the students to use all eight | | | | something in the room and then describe it to |
| words, along with any other words, in either | | | | the best of his or her abilities. Then, if |
| a poem, an essay or a short story.2) Hand | | | | that inanimate item could speak, have the |
| each student a slip of paper with a single | | | | student describe what it would say.5) Write |
| word on it. Have the students write a story | | | | one short sentence per piece of paper with |
| working that word into the story somehow. | | | | enough pieces of paper for each person in the |
| Sample word list: | | | | class. Have the student who has been handed |
| | | | the sheet of paper first add another |
| | | | sentence. Then rotate the pieces of paper |
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| k | | | | reading what others have written and then |
| elephant eagle frog freedom giraffe gym hand | | | | adding one sentence of their own. Read the |
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| per zoo3) Imagine you are alone on a desert | | | | Ink ( in October 2005. |
| island. What would you do? How would you | | | | |