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I have always loved writing and taught it in my classes, no matter the grade. After retirement, I published several books and began blogging. I love it, but there are days when I can't think of anything to write. When I taught writing to children, I always gave them a writing prompt, making it easier for them. I hope to post writing prompts for all ages. This site will be helpful to homeschoolers as well a classroom teachers. It is for anyone who loves writing or anyone who is required to write. Please let me see some of your writing.
Showing posts with label jack-o-lanterns.. Show all posts
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

The Jack-O-Lantern Fable

 Jack-O-Lanterns are everywhere in the fall of the year.  They represent fall and we love to carve them in various ways. Now let's have some fun in a different way with them.

A Fable is defined as 
  • a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters; the fable of the tortoise and the hare; Aesop's fables.

  • a story not founded on fact: This biography is largely a self-laudatory fable.

  • a story about supernatural or extraordinary persons or incidents; legend: the fables of gods and heroes.

  • legends or myths collectively: the heroes of Greek fable.

  • an untruth; falsehood: This boast of a cure is a medical fable.      
In other words, it is completely made up and not a word of truth in it.  It CAN'T be wrong.  It is your story.   Today I challenge you to write a fable explaining why these jack-o-lanterns are laughing. 

Early elementary--I put my jack-o-lantern in the window before going to bed.  The next morning...

Upper elementary--My jack-o-lanterns were sitting on my dresser when I left for school.  When I got home, my room was clean and the jack-o-lanterns were smiling.  (What happened while you were at school?)

Teen--The jack-o-lanterns at the grocery witnessed something you are not going to believe. ...

Adult--As Adam was hoeing around the pumpkins one day...