| 1) Have the students randomly choose two
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| | miss from home? Write a story or a poem
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| nouns, two verbs, two adjectives and two
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| | about your adventure.4) Have each student
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| adverbs. Write these eight words on the
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| | choose something in the room and then
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| board. Tell the students to use all eight
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| | describe it to the best of his or her
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| words, along with any other words, in
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| | abilities. Then, if that inanimate item
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| either a poem, an essay or a short
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| | could speak, have the student describe
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| story.2) Hand each student a slip of
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| | what it would say.5) Write one short
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| paper with a single word on it. Have the
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| | sentence per piece of paper with enough
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| students write a story working that word
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| | pieces of paper for each person in the
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| into the story somehow. Sample word list:
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| | class. Have the student who has been
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| | handed the sheet of paper first add
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| air alligator ball boy cat dog daisy drea
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| | another sentence. Then rotate the pieces
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| dlock
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| | of paper around the room, with each
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| elephant eagle frog freedom giraffe gym
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| | person first reading what others have
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| handcuff horse ice
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| | written and then adding one sentence of
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| cream igloo jeans jar kite kindergarten l
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| | their own. Read the results aloud.Jill L.
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| ove life moon movie nest
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| | Ferguson is a writer, editor, public
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| night ocean oil path palace quiet
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| | speaker and professor of creative
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| queen race
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| | writing, literature and communication.
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| roof safe spirit taxi tie unhappy ugly v
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| | Hundreds of her articles have appeared in
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| acation vegetable watch whale x-ray yard
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| | print in national magazines and
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| year zipper zoo3) Imagine you are alone
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| | newspapers. Her first novel, Sometimes
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| on a desert island. What would you do?
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| | Art Can't Save You, was published by In
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| How would you live? Who or what would you
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| | Your Face Ink ( in October 2005.
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