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Activity: Box of Ideas
Level: All levels
Materials: A large box, index cards
Place miscellaneous items in a large box or container. They can be anything. For instance, a notebook, an old hat, a candle, an old photograph, a baby shoe, a stapler, a flower, and so on.
Have a student pick an object and show it to the class. Students have ten or fifteen minutes to write a short essay about the object. Remind them to include an introduction, a well-developed body and a conclusion to their stories.
You can also have students choose the type of text they will write. It can be a narrative, a poem, a newspaper article, a song, an advertisement, and so on.
When the time is over, have students share their stories with the class.
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