Kfamily Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 Would anyone be interested in creating a list of favorite essay/writing assignment topics? I would love to see what other moms/dads are using for assignment ideas. We could include grade level, book or subject topic and whether it was an essay, writing assignment or reseach paper. I would love to start, but this seems to be one of my weak areas...:lol: For example, Grade __ From _____ (book title) or (history topic) or (science topic) Essay (? pages) (with notations yes/no ) or writing assignment with ____ requirements or research paper with _______requirements Assignment question/theme_____ I do promise to include anything we use this year as soon as I know what it is.:001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmgirl70 Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 Read the short story: The Lady or the Tiger by Frank Stockton Writing assignment: Write the end of the story. What happens? My daughter did this with her book club and they all loved the exercise and arguing which was behind the door--the lady or the tiger? It was a fun creative writing prompt. Can't think of any of our more serious assignments right now...totally not in school mode for another week or so. Need a break. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regentrude Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 These are some of the papers DD wrote for 9th grade: The Iliad -explain use of epithets in Homeric epic -interpret description of Achilles' shield The Odyssey How is Demodocus' second song thematically related to Odysseus' story? The Aeneid Comparison of the Odyssey and the Aeneid Ovid's Metamorphoses Comparison with Arabian Nights History papers: How the Persian war and it's aftermath affected Greek unity From Village to Polis: A short history of Greece until the Golden Age Biographical paper about Augustus I do not demand a specific length of paper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kfamily Posted August 9, 2011 Author Share Posted August 9, 2011 Thanks ladies! These are wonderful, and they really do help in that I can see better what types of questions I've considered would work and which ones would be better attempted in a couple of years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angela in ohio Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 My dd's favorite writing assignment this year (borrowed from Lafleur's college syllabus): Grade 9 Wheelock's Latin I Compare your favorite hobby or interest with the same in ancient Rome. She wrote about music, and it was a great prompt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kfamily Posted August 10, 2011 Author Share Posted August 10, 2011 Thanks Angela...I like that idea a lot! I know my dd would appreciate having some choice in what she will write. She is not a fan of writing assignments which are not interesting to her...:lol:...she is a bit emotional about her ideas sometimes. (But then, she is 14.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candid Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 I lean to more open ended topics where the student may get a general framework but chooses the subject independently. This is more like what will happen in college. I really like SEB's talk A Plan for Teaching Writing which you can buy here at the Peacehill Store. Here are some of the more open topics she suggests: • Question the motive of historical people or make an assumption about their motivation. • Place and weather’s effect on the outcome of some historical event. • Causality of events on other events. • Point out how and why a metaphor is used in a work. • Argue a character acted ethically right or wrong. • Why a discovery or invention was made. • What has changed in how we think because of a theory or invention. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kfamily Posted July 27, 2012 Author Share Posted July 27, 2012 Thanks Candid! I really like this list. This helps a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nscribe Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 Topic: What might you deduce about a culture's values from the heroes it recognizes in literature/art? Compare heroes from various cultures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom31257 Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 My dd enjoys taking heroes from history or literature (such as Gilgamesh) and showing why they really aren't a hero at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candid Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 Thanks Candid! I really like this list. This helps a lot. Well there's more in her talk. I encourage you to consider buying and listening to it, I think it is only $4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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