List Writing

Assignment: Students had about 1 minute each to write a list of red things, a list of noisy things, and a list of small things. When they finished, I had them circle one item from each list. I then gave them ten minutes two write a story including the three items they chose. This is what they wrote. Can you pick out the three items from each of their lists?

Bang! went the drum. "Ahhh! My finger! My finger!" Blood was everywhere on the drum. A girl had walked by and set her hand on the drum. Her finger was crushed and possibly broken. She was in the band room looking for her lost earring which was on the drum. The conductor came in and scolded her for being in the band room. After he was done yelling at her he sent her with a friend to go to the nurse. Once she got the news that it wasn't broken she was happy, but all this for a broken Wal-Mart earring.

-Lindsay


Once there was a dog, he loved cherries. This dog could eat them all day long if he wanted to. One day his owner's baby was eating cherries. How could he miss that good red fruit. The fact is, he couldn't so he jumped up on the table and ate them all. All of a sudden the baby started crying. At that moment he noticed he had bitten the baby's finger. His owner came in and scolded him and punished him. This punishment was no cherries for a month. After a month he ate all the cherries he could fit in his mouth. When cherry number 100 came of course he felt sick. That night all he dreamed about was cherries, sweet cherries. For breakfast, lunch, and dinner the next day he ate cherries galore.
The End

-Abbie




One day in the Salisbury's back yard they saw a huge bug in their red leaves. The bug was red with dark blue legs. They looked it up on the Internet. It was the most poisonous bug in the world, and it was worth 2 million dollars. So their youngest son went out to catch it. There were cars everywhere there so if it went on the street it would get killed. While he was trying to catch it, a dog saw the bug and chased it onto the road. The bug got squashed and so did the dog. Their neighbor got very mad because their dog got killed.

-Josh