These are writing prompts for Writing Workshop. If you can show you still have every prompt from this year, then you can be in the running for a fun award during the all-school assembly:
- Writing History — You wrote about a piece of writing that you really enjoyed writing, and a piece of writing that you did not enjoy. And you explained why and why not. (Sept. 5 )
- Harris Burdick Story — You wrote a short story, using the Harris Burdick illustrations as your source of inspiration. (Sept. 8 )
- Vehicle of the Future — You created an illustration of a car of the future that does not run on gas or oil or any other fossil fuels. Your picture has expository writing — labels and a sentence or so about your car. (Sept. 9 )
- BioPoem Rough Draft — This is where you did the first version of your BioPoem project. (Sept. 9 )
- Short Story Titles — You generated a brainstormed list of three to five creative titles to possible short stories and then wrote a short story. (Sept. 12 )
- Short Story — You one of the student-generated titles and wrote a short story. (Sept. 16 )
- WW Comic — You used at least three Wordly Wise words from Lesson One in a comic strip. (Sept. 17 )
- Freewrite — You had time to write what you wanted or to go back and follow up and finish a prompt. (Sept. 19 )
- Design a Treehouse — You drew an imaginary treehouse and labeled the parts. (Sept. 24 )
- Jungle Adventure — You put a picture story in the right sequence and then wrote a short story in first person narrative. (Sept. 24 )
- Ask the Candidates — You drew a comic strip in which you posed an important question for the presidential candidates. (Sept. 26 )
- Create a Character — You invented a fictional character that may be used in an upcoming Adventure Short Story project. (Sept. 29 )
- Using Dialogue — You used two objects and wrote some interesting dialogue between them, using the techniques we talked about in class (new paragraphs, quotation marks, commas, etc). (Sept. 30 )
- Reflection – Look back at your prompts and choose the one you liked best and explain why.
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- Calvin and Hobbes — We used comic strips to correctly write out some dialogue. (Oct. 3 )
- Adventure Story Rough Draft — You started to write out your short story project in rough draft version here. (Oct. 3 )
- Raft Trip Plan — In preparation for a descriptive paragraph about our Raft Trip, you did some concept mapping to plan out some main ideas. (Oct. 9 )
- Add An Adjective — I gave you a boring sentence (The dog went into the store and bought a bone) and you rewrote it two more times, using adjectives for descriptive writing. (Oct. 21 )
- Harris Burdick — I pulled out some more strange illustrations from the Harris Burdick collection and you wrote a short story. (Oct. 21 )
- Alien Discovery — You were an alien explorer who crash-landed on Earth and found an unknown object that you investigated with your five senses. (Oct. 22 )
- Draw This Monster — I read you aloud two short stories and you drew the monster that was described. (Oct. 23 )
- Mad Scientist Lab — You diagrammed out the laboratory of a mad scientist. (Oct. 24 )
- Pumpkin Power — You used characters Jack o Lantern and/or Jill o Lantern as superheroes/villains in a comic strip, short story or play skit. (Oct. 27 )
- Monster Exchange — You worked on the rough draft of your Monster Exchange project — the writing element and the sketch drawing. (Oct. 27 )
- Day in Life of Monster — You wrote a first person narrative story of a typical day in the life of your monster. (Oct. 29/30 )
- Forgotten Maps of Monsters — You created an entire map of a world, with a key, and then showed locations of monsters from Monster Exchange. Finally, you wrote a journal of an explorer traveling in your world. (Nov. 3 )
- Letter to the President — In a Friendly Letter format, you wrote a letter to President-elect Obama. (Nov. 5 )
- Monster Exchange Reflection – After you discovered your monster, you wrote about what made it easy and difficult for you to find. (Nov. 7 )
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- Short Story — You wrote a short story. (Dec. 1)
- Imaginary Land Travel Brochure — This is where you did the rough draft work for your travel brochure project. (Dec. 2 )
- Inside the Imaginary Land — This was a short story that was set inside your imaginary world. (Dec. 3 )
- Freewrite – You wrote what you wanted. (Dec. 4 )
- Spiral Story — You wrote a story about something circular in the form of a circle — words spiral around. (Dec. 5 )
- Rubber Chicken Incident — You wrote a puppet script, with a rubber chicken in it. (Dec, 8 )
- Invent a Holiday — You brainstormed a possible winter holiday concept. (Dec. 10 )
- Short Story Titles – You came up with a list of possible short story titles and then donated one to the class. (Jan. 20 )
- Short Story — You wrote a short story, with dialogue. (Jan. 21 )
- Olde English — I gave you a paragraph written in Olde English and you translated it into Modern English. (Jan. 22 )
- Jigsaw Words — You created five new words, using prefix-root-suffix. (Jan 23 )
- Short Story — You wrote a short story, with dialogue. ( Jan. 27 )
- Eponym — You created a product, named it after yourself and then wrote a brief description. (Jan. 29 )
- Freewrite – You wrote what you wanted, in any style you wanted. Quietly. (Feb. 2 )
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- Quidditch Design and Slogan — You designed a possible symbol for the 10th year of Quidditch at our school. (Feb. 11 )
- Preposition Plaza — On our work with prepositions, you gave directions for people who were on the map on the worksheet. (Feb. 11 )
- Silly Soup — You came up with a list of strange ingredients for a batch of Silly Soup for your class. (Feb. 13 )
- Pronoun Poem — You wrote a poem with pronouns in it. (Feb. 13 )
- Parts of Speech Rough Draft — This is where you did your work on sentences for identifying Parts of Speech. (Feb. 24 )
- Part of Speech Bingo — You kept track of words in our Bingo game. (Feb. 25 )
- Part of Speech Bingo — You kept track of words in our Bingo game. (Feb. 27 )
- Harris Burdick — Either in your notebook or on the computer, you worked on a short story inspired by the Harris Burdick drawings. (March 4 )
- Persuade Me — You wrote persuasive paragaphs on the merits of Quidditch (and later, on MCAS). (March 6 )
- Directions to the Party! — You gave directions in an expository paragraph on how to find the party in the Norris School. (March 9 )
- Stuffed Animal Day — You wrote a descriptive paragraph about one of the stuffed animals in the room and then worked on a short story in which one of the animals came to life - using first person narrative. (March 10 )
- How to … Rough Draft — You worked on an expository paragraph explaining the steps on how to do something. (March 10 )
- Memory Object — Narrative paragraph about an object. (3/ 12 )
- Short Story — You wrote a short story (3/23 )
- Safari Story — We looked at a picture of a tall tale story and explained the exaggeration going on. (3/ 23 )
- Tall Tale — You wrote your own tall tale story. (3/ 24 )
- Design a Quidditch Play – You designed out a play for Quidditch. (4/ 1 )
- Imagery - You listened to poems about colors and wrote out the images from the poems. (4/ 8 )
- Figurative Language Pre-Quiz – You wrote down answers to a sample quiz. (4/ 13 )
- Short Story – You wrote a short story. (4/ 13 )
- Wacky Animal - You created an imaginary animal. (4/15)
- Picture Book Memory – You wrote about a book from your childhood. (4/28 )
- Freewrite — You wrote what you wanted. (4/ 29 )
- Project Update — You answered some questions about your book project (5/ 11 )
(poetry journal)
- Poem of Place — You wrote a poem celebrating some place. (5/ 27 )
- Shape Poems — You created two shape/concrete poems. (5/28 )
- Poetry Possibilities — Using the sheet, you wrote five different poems about one theme. (5/ 29 )
- Haiku – You wrote two haiku poems — one traditonal and one non-traditional. (6/2 )
- Poem for Two Voices — You wrote a poem for two people to read together. (6/ 3 )
- Animal in Me — You compared yourself to some animal. (6/5)
- Limericks – You wrote two limericks. (6/8 )
- Epitaph – Tombstone poetry. (6/ 9 )
- The Raven — You drew an image from the Edgar Allen Poe poem. (6/9 )
- Poetry Marathon — You used all different styles of poems based on themes I provided. (6/ 10 )
- Inside This — You wrote a poem about an inanimate object. (6/ 10 )
- Freewrite Poem — You wrote a poem, any style. (6/ 11 )