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We've been welcoming student writers to our site for years, inviting them to post thoughts to our daily prompts, analyze multimedia compositions in our live-moderated forums, and submit formal work to our many annual contests.

But there has long been a missing piece. Though we've provided plenty of places to practice, we've only occasionally published resources to help teach young people how to write.

This school year, we're making up for that gap with a new series called Mentor Texts.

If the term is new to you, here is how the National Writing Project defines it:

Mentor texts are pieces of literature that you - both teacher and student - can return to and reread for many different purposes. They are texts to be studied and imitated ... Mentor texts help students to take risks and be different writers tomorrow than they are today. It helps them to try out new strategies and formats. They should be [texts] that students can relate to and can even read independently or with some support.

And of course, a mentor text doesn't have to be in the form of a book - a mentor text might be a poem, a newspaper article, song lyrics, comic strips, manuals, essays, almost anything.

Thanks to the 1,000-plus fresh articles published every week on NYTimes.com, we're in no danger of running out of possible material. In fact, the hardest part of creating this series may be choosing from among too many good options.

In general, though, each edition in the series will ...

Spotlight an excellent piece of writing published in The New York Times, whether on the front page or from sections like Opinion, Arts, Science, Sports, Business, Food, Travel or Style.

Try to demystify for students the effective craft moves writers make, then provide exercises that invite them to try those same moves in their own work.

Show students how the writing genres they study in school can be used in real-world contexts.

You can find the whole series in this column, beginning with several intended to support narrative writing. We've created these - on telling short, memorable stories; using details to show rather than tell; crafting a narrative arc; and more - to accompany the first unit of our yearlong Writing Curriculum, which will culminate in a Personal Narrative Essay Contest for students. Over the course of the school year, we'll also be creating Mentor Text editions to support argumentative, informational and analytic writing, among other genres.

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What would you say in a letter to your 2020 self? Your 2040 self?

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What Makes A Good....Student? Child? Parent? Sibling? Coach? Friend?

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What Makes A Good....Student? Child? Parent? Sibling? Coach? Friend?

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Moving Writers 100 Days of Summer Writing

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Check out these 10 video writing prompts. Ready, set, write!

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John Spencer

Posted on January 25, 2016

I believe that writing should be fun. It's not merely a functional activity we have to get through in life. I believe that persuasive, informational, and functional writing should be as fun as writing a story. I believe that all writing is inherently creative and that you can easily embed design challenges into writing (which I included in my latest illustrated writing idea).

This is why I love creating video writing ideas. I used to hand students paragraph-long writing prompts and it felt overwhelming. However, when I first created an illustrated a writing prompt, students were instantly engaged. It was not only more fun. It was also a chance to see and hear the writing idea in a new way.

For this reason, I'm posting all my video writing prompts from the most recent to the oldest. My goal has been to create at least one per month and already I'm above that pace. I watched the videos yesterday and noticed a cool progression in the quality of my doodles and in the level of animation in each video.

Consider Subscribing

You can find them all in this YouTube playlist. They are totally free to use in your classroom. If you find them helpful, the greatest way to pay me back is to try them out with your students and to like the videos, leave a comment, and subscribe this new video prompts channel on YouTube.

Please leave your email address below and click the yellow subscribe button to receive the free video writing prompts. I will also send you a weekly email with free, members-only access to my latest blog posts, videos, podcasts and resources to help you boost creativity and spark innovation in your classroom.

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Ten Free Video Writing Prompts to Spark the Love of Writing in Your Students

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John Spencer Posted on January 25, 2016 I believe that writing should be fun. It's not merely a functional activity we have to get through in life. I believe that persuasive, informational, and functional writing should be as fun as writing a story.

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Is Technology Making Our World Better Or Worse?

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Is Technology Making Our World Better Or Worse?

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Answer some of the questions posed in this video.

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Is technology making life better or worse?

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Check out Dove's mirror poem, below. Try creating one of your own!

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Use the attached slides to try it!

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Choose an option below to write about. Explain your choice as it pertains to YOUR life and experiences!

Would you rather be covered in scales or fur?

Would you rather lose the ability to see or hear?

Would you rather always be 10 minutes late or 20 minutes early?

Would you rather know the history of every object you touched or be able to talk to animals?

Would you rather be able to talk to land animals, animals that fly, or animals that live under the water?

Would you rather have all traffic lights you approach be green or never have to stand in line again?

Would you rather spend the rest of your life with a sailboat as your home or an RV as your home?

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Watch the following video. Who is your champion?

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Every kid needs a champion | Rita Pierson | TED

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Read the attached poem. Try writing your own piece of advice poetry.

“Do You Have Any Advice For Those of Us Just Starting Out?"

Give up sitting dutifully at your desk. Leave
your house or apartment. Go out into the world.

It's all right to carry a notebook but a cheap
one is best, with pages the color of weak tea
and on the front a kitten or a space ship.

Avoid any enclosed space where more than
three people are wearing turtlenecks. Beware
any snow-covered chalet with deer tracks
across the muffled tennis courts.

Not surprisingly, libraries are a good place to write.
And the perfect place in a library is near an aisle
where a child a year or two old is playing as his
mother browses the ranks of the dead.

Often he will pull books from the bottom shelf.
The title, the author's name, the brooding photo
on the flap mean nothing. Red book on black, gray
book on brown, he builds a tower. And the higher
it gets, the wider he grins.

You who asked for advice, listen: When the tower
falls, be like that child. Laugh so loud everybody
in the world frowns and says, "Shhhh."

Then start again.

—Ron Koertge *

* pronounced KUR-chee

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Watch the following video. What do you think the message behind the video is?

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Watch the BK "No Bully" video. What is something you feel is important to stand up for, based on experience?

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The world is ending! Leave a message for alien explorers.

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Begin by having every student write a favorite line from a song on the board. Have students return to their journals, and copy down some lines from the board. Form them into a poem of your own.

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Make up a really good lie about yourself to tell a stranger. Invent a story to back it up.

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How are you keeping your name clean?

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Develop a syllabus for a class you would like to teach.

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Write about a school experience.

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Use the following poem and create your own version of what "might have been otherwise."

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"Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance 

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"Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance 

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Watch the linked video. Use it to write on the topic of grit, or another topic you are inspired to discuss.

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Angela Lee Duckworth: Grit: The power of passion and perseverance | TED Talk

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Leaving a high-flying job in consulting, Angela Lee Duckworth took a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public school. She quickly realized that IQ wasn’t the only thing separating the successful students from those who struggled. Here, she explains her theory of “grit” as a predicto…

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Write about your life as if it were a passage from a novel.

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See the attached mentor text. Use it to personify a "quality" of your own.

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Open the attached google doc for prompt and poem.

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Mari Andrew Heart Maps (and "Autumnal Disappointments)

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Mari Andrew Heart Maps (and "Autumnal Disappointments)

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Open the attached google doc from prompt and both images.

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Fill in your backpack using the mentor text below.

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The Most Dangerous Writing Prompt Generator

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The Most Dangerous Writing Prompt Generator

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https://www.squibler.io/writing-prompt-generator

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Tell the story of a friendly monster.
OR
Tell a story in reverse chronological order.

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Make a list of the things you don't talk about.

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Make a list of the things you don't talk about.

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Write about the thing you don't talk about. Be disloyal and honest

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Answer the question above however you see fit.

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Use this mentor text, published in the New York Times, so create your own "The Truth Is" list.

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Uu7aXX8y4ABBAUViB244VR4VApQ82MW2u1z_S8cWcWQ/edit?usp=sharing

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Look at the brain map of Kanye West. Make your own "mind m

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Myspace - Infographic: Inside the Mind of Kanye West - Column Five

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Kanye's mouth has gotten him into more than its fair share of trouble. So we created this infographic for MySpace to help highlight the quirks and thought processes that Mr. West might go through on any given day.

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Use the mentors below to construct a heart map for the current month.

More mentors: https://www.google.com/search?q=georgia+heard+heart+maps&safe=strict&rlz=1C1GGRV_enUS760US760&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwipo6qr45DgAhXH6YMKHblJBK4Q_AUIECgD&biw=1366&bih=657#imgrc=McO6dz3kRSvyeM:

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5/8/18 -- Everyone Is Going Through Something, by Kevin Love

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5/8/18 -- Everyone Is Going Through Something, by Kevin Love

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Read Kevin Love's piece from The Player's Tribune. Use it as your own mentor text.

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It came out of nowhere. I'd never had one before. I didn't even know if they were real. But it was real - as real as a broken hand or a sprained ankle. Since that day, almost everything about the way I think about my mental health has changed.

I've never been comfortable sharing much about myself. I turned 29 in September and for pretty much 29 years of my life I have been protective about anything and everything in my inner life. I was comfortable talking about basketball - but that came natural. It was much harder to share personal stuff, and looking back now I know I could have really benefited from having someone to talk to over the years. But I didn't share - not to my family, not to my best friends, not in public. Today, I've realized I need to change that. I want to share some of my thoughts about my panic attack and what's happened since. If you're suffering silently like I was, then you know how it can feel like nobody really gets it. Partly, I want to do it for me, but mostly, I want to do it because people don't talk about mental health enough. And men and boys are probably the farthest behind.

I know it from experience. Growing up, you figure out really quickly how a boy is supposed to act. You learn what it takes to "be a man." It's like a playbook: Be strong. Don't talk about your feelings. Get through it on your own. So for 29 years of my life, I followed that playbook. And look, I'm probably not telling you anything new here. These values about men and toughness are so that they're everywhere ... and invisible at the same time, surrounding us like air or water. They're a lot like depression or anxiety in that way.

So for 29 years, I thought about mental health as someone else's problem. Sure, I knew on some level that some people benefited from asking for help or opening up. I just never thought it was for me. To me, it was form of weakness that could derail my success in sports or make me seem weird or different.

Then came the panic attack.

It happened during a game.

It was November 5th, two months and three days after I turned 29. We were at home against the Hawks - 10th game of the season. A perfect storm of things was about to collide. I was stressed about issues I'd been having with my family. I wasn't sleeping well. On the court, I think the expectations for the season, combined with our 4-5 start, were weighing on me.

I knew something was wrong almost right after tip-off.

I was winded within the first few possessions. That was strange. And my game was just off. I played 15 minutes of the first half and made one basket and two free throws.

After halftime, it all hit the fan. Coach Lue called a timeout in the third quarter. When I got to the bench, I felt my heart racing faster than usual. Then I was having trouble catching my breath. It's hard to describe, but everything was spinning, like my brain was trying to climb out of my head. The air felt thick and heavy. My mouth was like chalk. I remember our assistant coach yelling something about a defensive set. I nodded, but I didn't hear much of what he said. By that point, I was freaking out. When I got up to walk out of the huddle, I knew I couldn't reenter the game - like, literally couldn't do it physically.

Coach Lue came up to me. I think he could sense something was wrong. I blurted something like, "I'll be right back," and I ran back to the locker room. I was running from room to room, like I was looking for something I couldn't find. Really I was just hoping my heart would stop racing. It was like my body was trying to say to me, You're about to die. I ended up on the floor in the training room, lying on my back, trying to get enough air to breathe.

The next part was a blur. Someone from the Cavs accompanied me to the Cleveland Clinic. They ran a bunch of tests. Everything seemed to check out, which was a relief. But I remember leaving the hospital thinking, Wait ... then what the hell just happened?

I was back for our next game against the Bucks two days later. We won, and I had 32. I remember how relieved I was to be back on the court and feeling more like myself. But I distinctly remember being more relieved than anything that nobody had found out why I had left the game against Atlanta. A few people in the organization knew, sure, but most people didn't and no one had written about it.

A few more days passed. Things were going great on the court, but something was weighing on me.
Why was I so concerned with people finding out?
It was a wake-up call, that moment. I'd thought the hardest part was over after I had the panic attack. It was the opposite. Now I was left wondering why it happened - and why I didn't want to talk about it.

Call it a stigma or call it fear or insecurity - you can call it a number of things - but what I was worried about wasn't just my own inner struggles but how difficult it was to them. I didn't want people to perceive me as somehow less reliable as a teammate, and it all went back to the playbook I'd learned growing up.

This was new territory for me, and it was pretty confusing. But I was certain about one thing: I couldn't bury what had happened and try to move forward. As much as part of me wanted to, I couldn't allow myself to dismiss the panic attack and everything underneath it. I didn't want to have to deal with everything sometime in the future, when it might be worse. I knew that much.

So I did one seemingly little thing that turned out to be a big thing. The Cavs helped me find a therapist, and I set up an appointment. I gotta stop right here and just say: I'm the last person who'd have thought I'd be seeing a therapist. I remember when I was two or three years into the league, a friend asked me why NBA players didn't see therapists. I scoffed at the idea. No way any of us is gonna talk to someone. I was 20 or 21 years old, and I'd grown up around basketball. And on basketball teams? Nobody talked about what they were struggling with on the inside. I remember thinking, What are my problems? I'm healthy. I play basketball for a living. What do I have to worry about? I'd never heard of any pro athlete talking about mental health, and I didn't want to be the only one. I didn't want to look weak. Honestly, I just didn't think I needed it. It's like the playbook said - figure it out on your own, like everyone else around me always had.

But it's kind of strange when you think about it. In the NBA, you have trained professionals to fine-tune your life in so many areas. Coaches, trainers and nutritionists have had a presence in my life for years. But none of those people could help me in the way I needed when I was lying on the floor struggling to breathe.

Still, I went to my first appointment with the therapist with some skepticism. I had one foot out the door. But he surprised me. For one thing, basketball wasn't the main focus. He had a sense that the NBA wasn't the main reason I was there that day, which turned out to be refreshing. Instead, we talked about a range of non-basketball things, and I realized how many issues come from places that you may not realize until you really look into them. I think it's easy to assume we know ourselves, but once you peel back the layers it's amazing how much there is to still discover.

Since then, we've met up whenever I was back in town, probably a few times each month. One of the biggest breakthroughs happened one day in December when we got to talking about my Grandma Carol. She was the pillar of our family. Growing up, she lived with us, and in a lot of ways she was like another parent to me and my brother and sister. She was the woman who had a to each of her grandkids in her room - pictures, awards, letters pinned up on the wall. And she was someone with simple values that I admired. It was funny, I once gave her a random pair of new Nikes, and she was so blown away that she called me to say thank you a handful of times over the year that followed.

When I made the NBA, she was getting older, and I didn't see her as often as I used to. During my sixth year with the T-Wolves, Grandma Carol made plans to visit me in Minnesota for Thanksgiving. Then right before the trip, she was hospitalized for an issue with her arteries. She had to cancel her trip. Then her condition got worse quickly, and she fell into a coma. A few days later, she was gone.

I was devastated for a long time. But I hadn't really ever talked about it. Telling a stranger about my grandma made me see how much pain it was still causing me. Digging into it, I realized that what hurt most was not being able to say a proper goodbye. I'd never had a chance to really grieve, and I felt terrible that I hadn't been in better touch with her in her last years. But I had buried those emotions since her passing and said to myself, I have to focus on basketball. I'll deal with it later. Be a man.

The reason I'm telling you about my grandma isn't really even about her. I still miss her a ton and I'm probably still grieving in a way, but I wanted to share that story because of how eye-opening it was to talk about it . In the short time I've been meeting with the therapist, I've seen the power of saying things out loud in a setting like that. And it's not some magical process. It's terrifying and awkward and hard, at least in my experience so far. I know you don't just get rid of problems by talking about them, but I've learned that over time maybe you can better understand them and make them more manageable. Look, I'm not saying, Everyone go see a therapist . The biggest lesson for me since November wasn't about a therapist - it was about confronting the fact that I needed help.

One of the reasons I wanted to write this comes from reading DeMar's comments last week about depression. I've played against DeMar for years, but I never could've guessed that he was struggling with anything. It really makes you think about how we are all walking around with experiences and struggles - all kinds of things - and we sometimes think we're the only ones going through them. The reality is that we probably have a lot in common with what our friends and colleagues and neighbors are dealing with. So I'm not saying everyone should share all their deepest secrets - not everything should be public and it's every person's choice. But creating a better environment for talking about mental health ... that's where we need to get to.

Because just by sharing what he shared, DeMar probably helped some people - and maybe a lot more people than we know - feel like they aren't crazy or weird to be struggling with depression. His comments helped take some power away from that stigma, and I think that's where the hope is.

I want to make it clear that I don't have things figured out about all of this. I'm just starting to do the hard work of getting to know myself. For 29 years, I avoided that. Now, I'm trying to be truthful with myself. I'm trying to be good to the people in my life. I'm trying to face the uncomfortable stuff in life while also enjoying, and being grateful for, the good stuff. I'm trying to embrace it all, the good, bad and ugly.

I want to end with something I'm trying to remind myself about these days: Everyone is going through something that we can't see.

I want to write that again: Everyone is going through something that we can't see.

The thing is, because we can't see it, we don't know who's going through what and we don't know when and we don't always know why. Mental health is an invisible thing, but it touches all of us at some point or another. It's part of life. Like DeMar said, "You never know what that person is going through "

Mental health isn't just an athlete thing. What you do for a living doesn't have to define who you are. This is an everyone thing. No matter what our circumstances, we're all carrying around things that hurt - and they can hurt us if we keep them buried inside. Not talking about our inner lives robs us of really getting to know ourselves and robs us of the chance to reach out to others in need. So if you're reading this and you're having a hard time, no matter how big or small it seems to you, I want to remind you that you're not weird or different for sharing what you're going through.

Just the opposite. It could be the most important thing you do. It was for me.

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It came out of nowhere. I'd never had one before. I didn't even know if they were real. But it was real - as real as a broken hand or a sprained ankle. Since that day, almost everything about the way I think about my mental health has changed.

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Create an X and Y axis. Plot the months August-May along the X-axis. Pick at least 10 events from you school year to plot as points, labeling the events. Connect the points, and see what type of trends you notice over the last school year. Write about them.

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4/18/18 -- Kobe's Open Letter to Basketball

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4/18/18 -- Kobe's Open Letter to Basketball

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Read Kobe Bryan'ts Open Letter To Basketball, and watch the video. Write your own "open letter" to something or someone.

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3/5/18 -- 20 Things We Should Say More Often

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3/5/18 -- 20 Things We Should Say More Often

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Watch the video, and create a list of your own things people should say more often.

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2/23/18 -- "Difficult emotions have a purpose."

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2/23/18 -- "Difficult emotions have a purpose."

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Respond to and reflect upon the quote above.

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Read the blog below, and write about accidental influences. Consider discussing those who have accidentally influenced you, those you may have accidentally influenced, and those you COULD influence in the future!

https://practicalfreespirit.com/2011/08/04/accidental-influence/

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Watch Miranda Lambert's music video "The House That Built Me," and follow along with the lyrics. Then, write about the house that built YOU. Could consider:
-a poem
-a list (memories? things you can hear? feel? taste? touch? smell?)
-a paragraph reflection

The House That Built Me Video

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1/22/18 -- Things I Learned Last Semester

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1/22/18 -- Things I Learned Last Semester

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Using the mentor text below, write a poem titled "Things I Learned Last Semester."
Things I Learned Last Week

By William Stafford

Ants, when they meet each other,

usually pass on the right.

Sometimes you can open a sticky

door with your elbow.

A man in Boston has dedicated himself

to telling about injustice.

For three thousand dollars he will

come to your town and tell you about it.

Schopenhauer was a pessimist but

he played the flute.

Yeats, Pound, and Eliot saw art as

growing from other art. They studied that.

If I ever die, I’d like it to be

in the evening. That way, I’ll have

all the dark go with me, and no one

will see how I begin to hobble along.

In the Pentagon one person’s job is to

take pins out of towns, hills, and fields,

and then save the pins for later.

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Using the mentor text below as your guide, write an "I Prefer" poem of 20+ lines.
I Prefer

I prefer diet pepsi to diet coke

I prefer going to be early to staying up late

I prefer driving to riding

I prefer incandescent light to florescent light

I prefer carpet to hard wood

I prefer not trusting the bad in people to trusting the good

I prefer spending money to saving money

I prefer laughing to crying

I prefer fall to all other seasons

I prefer noise to silence

I prefer hills to plains, when sledding

I prefer plains to hills, when running

I prefer talking to texting

I prefer singing to dancing

I prefer blunt honesty to tip toeing around the truth

I prefer sweatpants to jeans

I prefer macs to pcs

I prefer salty snacks to sweet ones

I prefer straight hair to curly hair

I prefer loving to hating

I prefer people hating me for who I am to liking me or who I am not.

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Using Linda Rief's mentor text attached, write your own "Rambling Autobiography."

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11/13/17 -- Defining Words, Like Mari Andrew

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11/13/17 -- Defining Words, Like Mari Andrew

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Define conformity, or other "words," like Mari Andrew. Each word is followed by six exact examples, and pictures, of the word itself.

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Use pages from The Odyssey, old books, newspapers, or magazines, to create a blackout poem. Samplesattached!

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Create a list of 20 "awesome things," using Neil Pasricha's website as your guide.

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Using Mari Andrew's mentor text as your guide, create your "scariest haunted house," filled with the things that "scare" you the most.

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Look back at your "things I can talk about" list, from the beginning of the school year. Pick out a topic -- your choice!

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Imagine you were about to embark upon a 20 year journey, like Odysseus. What would you pack? What would you prepare? How would you spend your last day? What's your takeaway?

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Pull a stand out "this I believe" statement, and write a "This I Believe" essay. Use the NPR Mentor Texts as your guide.

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Check out this six-year-old's list of "things I believe," published on NPR.
Create a list of 15-20 "This I Believe" statements in your writer's journal.

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3/9/18 -- What Students Really Need To Hear

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3/9/18 -- What Students Really Need To Hear

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Read the blog post, and watch the video. Write your own "What __ Really Needs to Hear."

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How was your first high school homecoming experience? Consider writing about...
-dress up days
-pep rally
-football game
-dance

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A MEMOIR is "a historical account or biography written from personal knowledge or special sources."
6 Word Memoir Samples:
Music says things I never can.
Weird, seeing people out of context.
Beauty always hides in plain sight.
Keep moving forward: inches, feet, miles.
Old me: out. New me: in.
Quiz: the scariest word I know.
Made a friend today. So happy.

>> Now, write your six word memoir.

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Do you know what your name means, or why you have it? If so, explain. (Consider first name, middle name, nicknames, last name). Do you like your name? Why/why not? What does your name mean to YOU?