Snowflakes

Month: September 2011

  • Childhood Photo Essay

    Create a photo essay to illustrate your memories of your own childhood experiences.

  • Childhood Experiences

    Write a dialogue between you and another classmate about your school experiences.

  • Maximilian Glick

    Watch the video, “The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick.” Write about how the film deals with the problems of adolescents. [youtube video=EzPKHInWac8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzPKHInWac8

  • Your Early School Years

    Narrate a story about your early school years. Describe a once embarrassing memory that now seems amusing.

  • Be a Storyteller

    Be a Storyteller. Write a story about a time in your childhood when someone got revenge for a nasty trick that was played.

  • Cowboys and Indians

    Write a poem about how a stereotype has influenced your life.

  • Squirrels

    Write a poem about one of your childhood memories.

  • Extinct Civilizations

    Write a story in which your protagonist has discovered that s/he is a rare descendent of an extinct civilization – East or West. Ancient Egyptian The Inca The Maurya The Toltec The Mayans The Phoenicians The Babylonians The Sumerian The Aztec The Minoans Extra ideas for consideration: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genealogical_DNA_test http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_genealogy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_profiling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropology

  • Vandals

    Write a modern short story in which your protagonist discovers they are a rare descendant of the Vandals.

  • Sun in the Fog

    Write a narrative in which you feature a detailed description of Waterloo Bridge: Sun in the Fog (1903) by Claude Monet.