In my writing workshops we play a game called “Mystery Object.” I ask my students describe a real world object — preferably something in the world around them — without naming it in the description. Then, at the beginning of each workshop, the students take turns reading their Mystery Objects out loud while the...
I’m teaching figures of speech this week and I asked my students to finish some incomplete sentences to make metaphors. Unfinished sentence number one was “The moon is ….” The quiet student in the back wrote, “The moon is a mouse’s dream.” He got an A for the day.
Point of View Quiz In the space below, define each Point of View. Re-write the following brief scene (written in Second Person) in each of the Points of View (First Person, Third Person Omniscient, Third Person Limited Omniscient, Third Person Dramatic). You walked into a burger joint and got in line. The line moved...
It’s poetry month at the writing academy and I want the students to practice describing things accurately. From a suggestion in Robert Wallace’s Writing Poems, I’ve decided to use the first springtime oranges as objects to describe. We read a few haikus, first, to get an idea about how an accurate description of a...