Daily+Writing+Assignments

Daily Creative Writing Assignments - Use the following prompts to complete your daily writing journal. You only need to choose 5 of the 6 options per week. Each journal will be submitted on Thursday and redistributed on Friday. You may either submit writings to the teacher or post writings to the discussion board. Make sure you include the prompt for each piece.

Week One: Observing Yourself - Try to remember all you can of a particular event that occurred when you were much younger. Write about all the details that you can remember. - Write a letter to yourself as you were five years ago. - Notice your behavior today and describe it. AS an impersonal third-person narrator, describe the person the behavior reveals. - Write a “personals” advertisement about yourself. - Write a help-wanted ad that describes a job perfect for your characteristics. - Describe either your most embarrassing moment or a dangerous incident in which you were involved.

Week Two: Exaggerating Reality - Create a really convincing lie. - If today were a meal, what would it be like? If today were a piece of music, what would it be like? Come up with your own category and describe using the same technique. - Exaggerate something that you did. Make it extreme. - Invent a wonderful dream and write it as if you really dreamed it last night. - Think of a person you recently spent some time with. Now write about that event from their point-of-view. - Create a fantasy that fulfills a long-held wish.

Week Three: Bragging Rights - What I like about my personality is… - What I like about my appearance is… - What I have to offer to the world is… - If I were in charge of things around here, I would… <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; tabstops: list .75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">- I would want my obituary to say that I… <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; tabstops: list .75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">- My best friend would describe me as…

Week Four: Fictionalizing <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; tabstops: list .75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">- Describe your pet. Then describe yourself, speaking as your pet. <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; tabstops: list .75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">- You wake up to discover you are someone else. Who are you and what is it like? <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; tabstops: list .75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">- Invent a past for yourself. Make it colorful and convincing. <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; tabstops: list .75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">- Write a letter to an object you like or something in nature. <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; tabstops: list .75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">- Pretend you are the creator of the world. What would you create? <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; tabstops: list .75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">- Invite five famous people (alive or dead) to have dinner with you. Who are they and what would the conversation be like?

Week Five: Word Play and Naming <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; tabstops: list .75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">- Create as many words as you can from the letters in your name. Write a joke or poem about yourself using five of these words. <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; tabstops: list .75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">- Make a list of fifteen words you like, for whatever reason. Then combine some of them into crazy phrases and funny combinations. What do these new words mean? <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; tabstops: list .75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">- If you could rename your friends, what would you name them? Why? <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; tabstops: list .75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">- Invent names for groups of creatures that have not yet been classified. For example: litter of puppies, school of fish, gaggle of geese. What would a group of teenagers be called? Parents? Siblings? Teachers, etc…? <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; tabstops: list .75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">- List at least five or more current slang words and write a) a dictionary-style definition, b) a synonym and c) an antonym. Use each slang word correctly in a sentence. <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; tabstops: list .75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">- Look up the meaning of your name. Does it seem appropriate to you? Does it fit you? Why was it chosen? What would you have chosen for yourself?

Week Six: Interviewing <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; tabstops: list .75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">- Write a letter to an author, or write a list of questions you would like to ask this person during an interview. <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; tabstops: list .75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">- Interview a historical person. <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; tabstops: list .75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">- Interview yourself. <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; tabstops: list .75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">- Interview your mother or father. <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; tabstops: list .75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">- Interview a character from your favorite television show or movie. <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; tabstops: list .75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">- Interview a person who has the job you would like to have someday.

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; tabstops: list .75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">Week Seven: Historical Reaction <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; tabstops: list .75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">Using the "This Day in History" link on the links page, find an article of interest from the past and react to the article. How did it impact you? How did it impact the world? Was it significant or insignificant? Why/Why not?