Directions: Present an argument to your parents either for or against teen employment. You must also include your 3x2 Pre-writing Strategy.
Deadline: February 8, 2013 11:59 p.m. CST
Issue: You are faced with the decision of whether or not to work while in high school.
Directions: Present an argument to your parents either for or against teen employment. You must also include your 3x2 Pre-writing Strategy. Deadline: February 8, 2013 11:59 p.m. CST Directions: Look at the videos above and answer the following questions for both. Keep in mind the lesson on the modes of Rhetorical Structure that was discussed last week. Think about the definitions of Logos, Ethos and Pathos as you answer the questions. Also, include Kairos. Deadline: February 1, 2013 11:59 p.m. CST
Directions: Write a letter to President Obama explaining to him what you want to see from his second term in office. Pick one policy you feel strongly about and persuade the president to write your policy into federal law.
Your header: (Name) (Grade) Lancaster High School 200 E. Wintergreen Road Lancaster, TX 75134 Dear President Obama, Deadline: January 25, 2013 11:59 p.m. CST Persuasive writing is a form of writing that convinces an audience to share a belief with the speaker.
Directions: Write a compelling argument that convinces audiences that dogs do or do not make good pets. Be very detailed and descriptive in your writing. Support your opinion with as many substantiated facts as possible. Persuade your readers to want to go out and get a dog as a pet. Deadline: January 18, 2013 11:59 p.m. CST Directions: Use this prompt and imagine, if you could go anywhere in the world, where would it be and why? Be VERY DETAILED in your reasons why you want to visit, what you expect to see, and what you would like to do while at that location. Don't limit your ideas. Explore different moods, geography, apparel, etc.
For instance, if you want to go to the Rocky Mountains, mention how you would want to go camping, or skiing down the slopes, or sitting in front of the cabin fire drinking hot chocolate. Deadline: January 11, 2013 11:59 p.m. CST The lake was calm. Although the rays from the sun beamed down onto the water, the chill in the air hovered. He stood on the bank, staring out. He could not believe what's happened. He sat there for a while and then . . .
Directions: Use this prompt and your imagination to write a compelling story about what happens next. Don't limit your ideas. Explore different moods, geography, apparel, etc. Is what happened good or bad? Deadline: December 21, 2012 11:59 p.m. CST It's a breezy autumn day. The sky is overcast. The energy around me is still. As I watched the leaves drift . . .
Directions: Use this prompt and your imagination to write a compelling story about what happens as you watch the leaves drift. Don't limit your ideas. Explore different moods, geography, apparel, etc. Deadline: December 14, 2012 11:59 p.m. CST Chelsey loves to pick apples. Chelsey’s mother always uses them for something special. One day, Chelsey gave her mother 200 apples! Mother took the apples and . . .
Directions: Use your imagination to write what Chelsey’s mother did with the apples. Don’t limit your ideas to cooking. Explore: what else besides cooking did Chelsey’s mother use the apples for. Deadline: December 7, 2012 11:59 CST A father and his son are passengers on a plane headed to Europe for vacation. The plane crashed. They were separated. Now, the father must find his son, yet he has no idea where he is located.
Directions: Use your imagination and write the story above. Explore: How old is the son? A young boy or a teenager? Is the son in Europe or the US or elsewhere? When does the story take place, winter, spring, summer, fall? Deadline: November 30, 2012 11:59 CST Kita took a deep breath, swallowed hard, lifted the rusty latch and pulled the cellar door open.
Directions: Use your imagination and finish the scene. Explore: is Kita a man or woman? Is this taking place now, in the 1860’s, 10 years ago or at some other time? What’s behind that cellar door? DEADLINE: Friday, November 30, 2012, 11:59 p.m. CST ![]() You're a famous theater critic. When actors perform, they, and the public, cannot wait to know what you think. Your opinion has been known to make or break the success of a play, and more importantly, an actor's or director's career. You recently saw a play where the leading character fell twice and had a costume malfunction. Although it was a comedy, you knew that the falls were not intended and they created a couple of awkward moments for the cast and the audience. However, otherwise, he or she delivered a stellar performance. Directions: Write a critique about the performance and the overall show in very explicit detail. Directions: Use all of the following words in a story: an unsuccessful painter, crumpled paper, roll of film, train.
Start your story with this prompt: A funny thing happened on my way to… Directions: Finish this speech: It seems like I've been writing all my life. Everything I've reported about has led me to this moment. Let me tell you about some of them. My first assignment was amazing. I went to . . .
![]() This month is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Write a heartfelt poem about breast cancer, survival or a loved one who either survived or succumbed to breast cancer without using the words breast or cancer. You look out of the window and see this. Make complex inferences about the image to describe what it is. Where are you?
There was once a chance I didn't take that maybe I should have. What would my life be like now if I had . . .
Think of a school rule that you do not like. Write a persuasive argument convincing the administration that it should be changed.
Describe your plans to embrace, nurture and promulgate your culture and history throughout your education and daily life.
You’ve just moved into a new house and are fixing it up. In the process of painting, you find an odd crack in the wall. As you explore further, you find out it’s a secret passageway—and you have no idea where it leads. You decide to grab a flashlight and go exploring. Describe what you find.
On the table, I had pebbles for the centerpiece right next to the onions and other vegetables I was cutting for the salad. Abruptly, "those two" burst into the kitchen, bumped the table and spilled everything onto the floor in a conundrum of colorful pebbles and veggies, but the party was going to start in an hour. Write a solution . . .
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