https:\/\/www.teacherspayteachers.com\/Store\/Nestucca-Spit-Press-Writing-Curriculum<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nMine work extremely well with distant learning, whether it be solo or a Zoom-like setting. They can also be used by home schooled students. Many of the lessons are also suitable for elementary aged students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This latest lesson is called the Pandemic Writing Assignment. The prompts are below. Take a run at some of these yourselves. Why not? It might spur some original thinking instead of rehash and outright lifting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It sometimes helps order a troubled mind to write about crisis I know it’s worked for me and hundreds of my students over the decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is no better time than now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pandemic Writing Prompts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n- What have learned about myself during the Pandemic?<\/li>
- What I have learned about my country during the Pandemic?<\/li>
- Respond to this: To wear a mask or not wear a mask, that is the question.<\/li>
- What has been your low point during the Pandemic?<\/li>
- What has been your high point during the Pandemic?<\/li>
- Describe a friendship lost or found during the Pandemic.<\/li>
- If you have documented your experience during the Pandemic, how did you do so and why?<\/li>
- What is something you did during the Pandemic that you’d never done before?<\/li>
- What about your pre Pandemic life do you miss the most?<\/li>
- Name a great Pandemic song, show, movie, book or some other art form that helped you cope during the Pandemic. Explain how and why.<\/li>
- Write a Pandemic equation of success or failure for yourself. For example, Booze + Tolstoy + new shelter dog = survival.<\/li>
- Describe the moment you lost it during the Pandemic or were on the verge of losing it.<\/li>
- Okay, let’s go there. President Trump’s performance during the Pandemic has been _____.<\/li>
- Write a haiku about the Pandemic.<\/li>
- Finish this limerick: There once was a virus from Nantucket \/<\/li>
- How will life be different once the Pandemic subsides?<\/li>
- Write a slogan for America during the Pandemic.<\/li>
- Who or what kept you sane during the Pandemic?<\/li>
- What member of your family was the strongest or weakest during the Pandemic?<\/li>
- Describe a time how you helped someone or didn’t help someone during the Pandemic.<\/li>
- Describe a time you got into an argument with someone about some aspect of the Pandemic.<\/li>
- Where was God during the Pandemic?<\/li>
- What’s been the greatest lie of the Pandemic?<\/li>
- Respond to this fact: they’re playing professional sports without fans during the Pandemic.<\/li>
- What’s the better story? A stranger comes into town during the Pandemic. Or: A man or woman goes on journey during the Pandemic.<\/li>
- So many Americans are\/were on the move during the Pandemic. Why? Where are they going?<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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