Pick a vignette we have not read yet. Read it, then answer these questions with 300+ words:
1. What does this vignette do/show/communicate? What is its main idea?
2. What description is cool or different?
3. How does this vignette fit with the other vignettes near it in the book?
Write a vignette (similar to the ones Cisneros has written) about an odd childhood memory.
Then, create six of your own, making connections to your own life.
(Pictured is Toni Morrison, the metaphor master.)
Select four or more stems from the right of this blog. Write 300+ words about any part of this book so far.
Then, imitate the vignette entitled "Hairs" (pages 6-7). Write in the same style with the same length—with the same literary devices that Cisneros does.
Andyandrews.com examines personal purpose statements. He's an impressive man with impressive goals.
You're a senior. People will ask about your purpose. And rightly so. They want you to live lives of purpose and prosperity. They want you to contribute.
This week, you will answer these questions:
MONDAY: 1. What is important? What/whom do you value? How is your life connected to those things?
TUESDAY: 2. Where do I want to go? You can answer this many different ways. Your answer may involve a spiritual, mental, or physical destination. It might describe your career arc.
WEDNESDAY: 3. What does “the best” look like for me? Describe your best possible result. This isn’t the time to be realistic. This is the time to dream.
THURSDAY: 4. How do I want to act? How do you want people to describe you? Think of a few words you would want to come to mind when people think about you.
FRIDAY: 5. What kind of legacy do I want to leave behind? Imagine you’re 100 years in the future. What does the impact you’ve left look like? How is your Butterfly Effect still touching lives?
"I don't want to survive. I want to live!" —Captain
When do you survive?
When do you live?
Answer both while totaling 450+ words.
How do you carry the fire on a daily basis? Why bother? Write 400+ words.
Also, how does WALL-E carry the fire? Write 150+ words.
1. Juxtapose The Road & WALL-E. List similarities. List differences. Explain your logic.
2. Select from the stems on the right to write 200+ additional words to show you're thinking critically.
Read pages 220-245, then write about the word "gregarious."
Are you gregarious? Why are some people gregarious? Using your own words, define "gregarious." Why do we like to interact with others? What is interpersonal communication so valuable and important?
Include 300+ total words.
Read pages 188-205, then pick 1 or 2 to write 250+ words:
1. Ely
2. boy's dream
3. train
4. no propane
5. dad's cough
6. "blue" ocean
7. "pitiless dark" (187)
8. infant
9. Something else up to page 205.
1. Type 200+ words about your favorite part of the novel so far. The happiest, best, most pleasant, most decent, most ethical.
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2. Type 200+ words about your least favorite part of the novel so far. The saddest, worst, most uncomfortable, most depraved, least ethical.
"How does the never to be differ from what never was?" Write about that line.
Discuss a luxury you would miss. They enjoy cocoa as a final luxury, for example.
Match the description on page 38. Describe something you know.
"Who is anybody?" (49). Write about that quote.
"There is no later" (54). Write about that.
Include 100+ words.
True? Why?
"We remember what we want to forget and forget what we want to remember."
1. When do you conform? Why?
2. When do you rebel? Why?
3. When is conforming the cool/smart move? Why?
4. When is rebelling the cool/smart move? Why?
What is your favorite scene, and why?
Other than Luke, who is your favorite character, and why?
We are working on Adjectives in No Red Ink, so use as many adjectives as possible as you describe something—just one thing—with as much detail as possible in 300+ words.
