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Homeschooling Reluctant Writers #2: Amusement Park

Friday, January 11th, 2013

Homeschooling Reluctant Writers
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A series of 10 fun writing assignments given by a pirate)

Aaaaarrggghh! This is Dread Pirate Susan Evans to tell you more ideas for reluctant writers.

Writing Idea #2: Amusement Park

  • Go ahead and dream up the wildest amusement park you can think of–yeah–all the rides, and describe them in a different paragraph. Uh huh…
  • You’re saying that you don’t know what it’s like to ride on rides? Well, come for a ride with me. (Watch us go on lots of fun rides, including a log ride, an umbrella ride, a roller coaster, a turning ride, and a spinning ride.) Wasn’t that fun?
  • Now, you can choose a theme like outer space or robots or flowers in the meadow–whatever you wish–and you describe each one in a different paragraph. And it would be a wonderful paper, wouldn’t it? Yes.

This is Dread Pirate Susan Evans, signing off. Aaaaarrggghhh!

homeschooling-reluctant-writersCalling all homeschooled kids! I dare you to make a video response to this pirate video on YouTube:

  • Write a full one-page description of an amusement park.
  • Dress up as a pirate.
  • Read your amusement park description into a video camera and upload it to YouTube.
  • Go to the above video on YouTube, and press “video response.”
  • I am automatically notified when someone posts a video response. After watching it, I will embed it right here on this page!

Homeschooling Reluctant Writers #1: Message in a Bottle

Friday, January 4th, 2013

Homeschooling Reluctant Writers
(A series of 10 fun writing assignments given by a pirate)

Aaaaarggh! This is Dread Pirate Susan Evans, here to give you some tips on homeschooling reluctant writers.

Writing Idea #1: Message in a Bottle

  • First get yourself a fort or something similar, where you can stand up on it.
  • Next, you write a message on a sheet of paper, roll it up, and put it into a bottle. The bottle should be a plastic bottle and not glass, so that when you throw it overboard, it doesn’t crack on someone’s head and shatter glass everywhere.
  • Unbeknownst to you, someone will then find it after it’s been splashed in the water. “Please get me out of this ship. I’m in chains, and a mutiny is happening. Yours truly, Captain Bradwell.”

So you see, you can even throw it off a bunk bed or any other high place and get the same effect. Just make sure you don’t bonk someone on the head as they’re passing by.

Here is another example of a pirate letter Message in a Bottle. It says: “Jimmy, nice try! We won’t give up! We will take the treasure if it’s the last thing we do! …”

This is Dread Pirate Susan Evans, signing off. Aaaaaarrrrggh!

homeschooling-reluctant-writersCalling all homeschooled kids! I dare you to make a video response to this pirate video on YouTube:

  • Write a full one-page message in a bottle.
  • Dress up as a pirate.
  • Read your message in a bottle into a video camera and upload it to YouTube.
  • Come back here and comment under this blog post, including the link to your video, and I will go watch it and comment!
  • After watching it, I will embed it right here on this page!