Back to School Prompts
by Pattie Reitz,
Staff Writer
It’s back to school time! Time for new
pencils, new notebooks, fresh starts. What better time than to use
some back-to-school prompts to liven up your journal and perhaps
take a stroll down memory lane for just a while.
These are prompts I used to use in my high
school classroom with great success. Give them a try and give
yourself a taste of back-to-school.
Describe what life at _____ High School would
be like if YOU were the principal.
If your teacher was gone for a week, who would
you like to be your substitute teacher? The sub can be any person,
living or dead, famous or not. Then tell me why you’d want this
person to be your teacher and what you might learn from him or her.
If you
could change your school’s mascot or colors, what would you change
them to and why? If you wouldn’t change them, explain why you think
they’re fine the way they are.
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Pattie Reitz is a writer and a teacher. She received her B.A.
in English Education in 1991 and her MSEd in English in
1995. Pattie has experience teaching several age groups:
middle school for one year, high school for eight and a half
years, and college for five semesters. She received
training in 1997 as an Advanced Placement instructor in
English and in 2002 as a teacher-consultant with the Greater
Kansas City Writing Project.
In addition to her work at Writers Remember as Assistant
Editor and Journaling & Writing Prompts Guru, Pattie is a
book reviewer for
Armchair
Reviews (one of Writer's Digest's 101 Best Web Sites for
Writers, 2006), and blogs about books at
Bookworm's Nook,
a blog on Dot Com Women's network of blogs. She is also a member of
American Christian Fiction
Writers. She considers journaling and personal
narratives her passions in terms of writing genres, and she
loves to encourage others to record their stories.
Pattie has had a few pieces published, both in print and
online, and her current goal is to write more for
publication in 2006.
Online, Pattie is a moderator on the
Women at Home
message board and up until recently worked as a community leader on iVillage's
former Journaling board.
She is wife to a chaplain and mother of two girls, ages 9
and 6. Her blog is found at
www.xanga.com/pattierwr.
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