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Story Activity

Read a story.

Write a post in which you first summarize the story. Next describe your responses to the characters and events at various points. Then develop two open-ended questions you are interested in discussing. Work with others in the class to develop a structured discussion around the group’s questions. Afterword add one or two paragraphs to your post, incorporating new insights or interpretations from your discussion.

Help with “structured discussion”? Use the comment form at the bottom of your post or the forums.

Plinky Prompt 733

Your personal sculptor is carving a person, thing or event from the last month of your life into the glistening marble of immortality. What’s the statue of and what makes it so significant?

Plinky Prompt 732

Your blog just went viral. Ok, sorry, not yet. But just imagine. What’s the one post you’d like new readers to see and remember you by? Write that post.

Plinky Prompt 731

You’ve been asked to do a five-minute presentation to a group of schoolchildren on anything of your choice. What would you present?

Plinky Prompt 730

You’re making a documentary about something that you feel so passionate about that you’ve saved up for a decade to get it made. Ok, you’re not making a documentary really, but you’re writing a post about the same subject. Go write it!

Plinky Prompt 729

You’re writing your autobiography. What’s your opening sentence?

Plinky Prompt 728

You’re writing a spooky story about the sea. What’s in the deep end?

Plinky Prompt 727

You’re a movie star. What foods/items do you request for your dressing room?

726 Prompt

You wake up and discover that you can speak another language. Which one?

Plinky Prompt 725

You receive a call from someone you don’t expect. Who is it, and what is the conversation about?