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., handwriting, capitalization, punctuation).
Writing Prompt - Learning Experiences and Resistances
Choose from one or more of the prompts below.
1. Try to think of a time when you learned something that was difficult for you to accept, but that eventually changed your perspective in a major way—a time when you felt like a veil had suddenly been lifted from your eyes and you now saw things clearly. Describe it. What did you think before, and what did you think after? How did you acquire your new knowledge? How and why was it difficult for you to accept it? How would you feel about returning to your old way of thinking? Would remaining ignorant have been more blissful? After you learned it, did you feel any obligation to share your knowledge with others?
2. Why do people, generally, resist learning and accepting new ideas? How can we overcome our innate resistance to new ideas?
3. What obligations, if any, do we have for sharing our learning? Should we share our knowledge with others or should others share their knowledge with us? Or do we live in a competitive dog-eat-dog world where people should look out for themselves and we should let the ignorant waste away or work in wage-slavery? Is there a middle ground between those binary poles (entirely obligated/no obligation whatsoever)?
Use ALL of the time (10-15 minutes) to write about this topic.