Writing prompts help build the ability to respond to questions, and they help writers get their ideas down. Over the course of time, they build writing fluency and proficiency as well.
Please give serious consideration to the prompt, doing so will highlight connections in the texts we read. Please use all of the time provided -- keep writing even when you think you're out of ideas. Remember, writing is a thinking process; the more you write, the more you think! Although I do not assess daily writing responses for conventions, use them to practice your skills – try to write in complete sentences (avoid fragments, run-ons, and comma-splices) and develop other good habits (e.g., capitalization, punctuation)
Writing Prompt – The Class as a Text
We each have the power to not only listen to and interpret the voices of the dead (the writings from the past) and the voices of the living (the writings of the present), but we can also listen to and interpret other things as well. Artwork, music, clothing, hairstyles, a building and even a room are all “texts” that can be read.
Take a few minutes to look around this room. Please get out of your seat to examine something more closely, but do not speak to anyone else. Take a piece of paper and something to write with in case you need to copy something or record an idea.
When the timer goes off please return to your seat and begin writing.
Write as much as you can in the allotted time (about 10 minutes).
You may write about and respond to something you see, or answer the questions below.
From looking at the things posted around the room, what can you tell? In other words, what does it mean?
Please be prepared to share your views with the class.
Thank you