Making Magnetic Sentences

In Ms. Updike's A.P. Literature and Composition course, Shorecrest seniors practiced their creative writing skills by working collaboratively to piece together magnetic words into unique, inventive sentences.

Groups of students were given a handful of magnetic words with various suffixes and prefixes so they could create different combinations and conjugations, improving legibility and cohesion. After five minutes students displayed their inventions on the whiteboards and read them aloud. Students then voted on which sentence they believed demonstrated the most creativity. (They could not vote for their own group's work.)

This quick class-starter falls during the personal statement unit in which students are tasked with writing their college admission essays by considering College Essay Guy's model for uncommon topics, uncommon connections, and uncommon language; the latter of which is bolstered by classroom exposure to creative writing skills over several weeks. 

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