This can work as a good first-day exercise to help students get to know one another.
Have students pair up and pull three objects from their backpack / purse / pockets, etc. You can lead them by saying, "Find three objects that tell something about you," or "Find three objects that are important to you," and pass them to your partner.
Students can then:
- Write about what is revealed by those three objects. What assumptions can be made with those three objects? You can have students introduce each other with those three objects and the guesses as to what is a significant part of the partner's life / personality. (This can be a kind of character building exercise as well.)
- OR, students could create a story which involves those three objects in some way.
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This blog is meant to be a resource for creative writing instructors, but many of these prompts can be adapted for individual writers who are looking for exercises. The labels are meant to help with categorization--so if you are looking for some good first day activities, you can click on "introductions," or if you are looking for something specific, you can click on labels that are forthcoming, such as "character building" or "poetry forms."
(Also: Please feel free to leave comments to make suggestions, to correct errors, and to let me know if I have mis-credited a particular source!)
(Also: Please feel free to leave comments to make suggestions, to correct errors, and to let me know if I have mis-credited a particular source!)
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I'm currently a poetry MFA student at the University of Minnesota. This will be my second graduate degree; my first is an M.Ed in English. I've taught creative writing at both the high school and university level, and this blog combines both my pedagogical and creative tendencies. You can learn more about my work at my webpage. (4/09)
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