Writing Prompt #3
For me, it had to be the night when the Patriots first won the Super Bowl. Charlie was two years old and sitting on my lap when Adam Vinatieri kicked the field goal to win the game. When the ball split the uprights, I jumped up (and sent Charlie about five feet in the air) and celebrated in the living room by dancing a victory waltz between the couches and chairs and coffee table with Charlie in my arms—oblivious to why I was acting so un-dad-like. That one kick made up for my childhood of Red Sox teams that never quite made it through the playoffs—much less go to the playoffs—and Patriot’s seasons that year after year went nowhere. As much as anything that Patriot victory was a vindication of persistence and loyalty because through the thick and thin of so many years Boston teams have always been my teams.
Writing Prompt: Try and remember your “greatest game of all time. It does not have to be a professional sport’s team. It could even be a whiffleball game in your backyard or a Thanksgiving day game of touch football against your cousins. Use this simple “ Set the scene and state the theme, say what you mean and finish it clean” rubric to tell your story. Try to add a picture or pictures to add a little extra umph to your story.
Paragraph #1: Describe the best scene of the game (sort of like I did with my example, which is called “setting the scene)) and end the paragraph with a sentence or two that tells us why that game is still an important memory in your life. (This is called “stating the theme.”)
Body Paragraphs: Describe the game in more detail, but not every detail—just the good stuff that capture the important moments and players in the game: the “who/what/when/where/why” that adds the important details. This is called the “say what you mean” part of the story.
Final Paragraph: Write one sentence with three (yes, three) reasons that sums up why this game is with remembering. I only want you to write one sentence because I like a story that “Finishes it clean."
Write your final sentence some like this: I will always remember this game because FILL IN THE BLANK, and because FILL IN THE BLANK, but mostly because FILL IN THE BLANK.
Click here to use a Quip online rubric that will be shred with me.
Then post it to your blog! I am psyched to read about your favorite and most memorable games.
Have a great week. Keep posting and commenting—and start posting if you are back from your camps and vacations. Be in touch if you are having any issues at all with writing and/or posting to your blog.
~Fitz
Writing Prompt: Try and remember your “greatest game of all time. It does not have to be a professional sport’s team. It could even be a whiffleball game in your backyard or a Thanksgiving day game of touch football against your cousins. Use this simple “ Set the scene and state the theme, say what you mean and finish it clean” rubric to tell your story. Try to add a picture or pictures to add a little extra umph to your story.
Paragraph #1: Describe the best scene of the game (sort of like I did with my example, which is called “setting the scene)) and end the paragraph with a sentence or two that tells us why that game is still an important memory in your life. (This is called “stating the theme.”)
Body Paragraphs: Describe the game in more detail, but not every detail—just the good stuff that capture the important moments and players in the game: the “who/what/when/where/why” that adds the important details. This is called the “say what you mean” part of the story.
Final Paragraph: Write one sentence with three (yes, three) reasons that sums up why this game is with remembering. I only want you to write one sentence because I like a story that “Finishes it clean."
Write your final sentence some like this: I will always remember this game because FILL IN THE BLANK, and because FILL IN THE BLANK, but mostly because FILL IN THE BLANK.
Click here to use a Quip online rubric that will be shred with me.
Then post it to your blog! I am psyched to read about your favorite and most memorable games.
Have a great week. Keep posting and commenting—and start posting if you are back from your camps and vacations. Be in touch if you are having any issues at all with writing and/or posting to your blog.
~Fitz