Friday, October 4, 2013

Updated Prompts for Your Nonfiction Pieces!

Here are the prompts I posted in class if you are feeling stuck.  Remember, you have a polished piece due this coming Friday, October 18th.  Here is the information on that.

Write a history of your life through… (pick one)
  • Your favorite books growing up
  • Important sports games or tournaments
  • Your favorite songs growing up
  • Games (video, board, both, etc.) growing up
  • Homework assignments you didn’t do
  • Your most memorable classes
  • TV shows or favorite movies
  • Another idea?

Write a "How To" manual that tells us something about who you are, what you believe, what you care about, how you view the world, what teenagers are like etc.
  • How to ask someone out…
  • How to master Minecraft…
  • How to deal with loss…
  • How to be you…
  • How to trick your teacher into thinking you did a good job on your homework…
Write a response to the "Worrier vs. Warrior" article
  • Are you a worrier or a warrior? Somewhere in between?
  • Tell a (true) story (or stories) about yourself that demonstrate(s) your inner worrier, inner warrior, or inner inbetweener.
  • Write an essay in which you refute the worrier/warrior concept altogether.
  • Write about members of your family as worriers or warriors: where you do think you get your traits from?
  • Write about the effect of testing or grades on you:  think of SPECIFIC anecdotes/stories that show the reader how you felt, rather than just telling us about it.
  • Tell the story about a moment when you overcame anxiety.
  • Tell the story about a moment when you were overwhelmed by anxiety and couldn’t make something happen (think stage fright, test anxiety etc.).
Write a response to the ideas we've discussed this week (Rousseau, Hobbes, SPE, Milgram, etc.)
  • How do you think you would you have acted had you been a participant in the Milgram or SP experiments? 
  • How would you explain the results of the SP and Milgram experiments?  Why did people do what they did?
  • How does civilization affect humanity?  Are we better off with it?  Worse off?  Both?  Neither?
  • Why do “good” people do “bad” things?
  • Just react to what we’ve been talking about this week:  freewrite about your responses, thoughts, questions, confusions, critiques, conclusions… 
Write a response to Nietzsche's concept of the "Will to Power":
  • What do people most want in the world?  Is there one essential thing that we all want?
  • What do teenagers most want?  Adults?  Kids?  Is there a difference?  
  • What do girls most want in life? Boys?  Is there a difference?
  • Analyze how, if at all, money and power are related.




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