I told the kids to try to incorporate some of the vocabulary words we’ve been learning into their writing entries. The result sounds a little like Mad Libs. (Vocabulary words are in all-caps.)
Here’s the prompt:
On this day in 1894, Hershey’s Chocolate Company was founded. If you were asked to create a new candy product, what would that product be? Include the ingredients, the candy’s name, and the kind of packaging for your new product.
You remember Janie, right?
If I made my own kind of Hershy chocolate, I would make up of course…you can probably know already, cheesecake*! Even when I only just write it I can imagine it!
Hopefully when I make it, lots of people would be ACTIVE in working on it. Maybe, someday cheesecake Hersheys will be famous. Some day, my chocolate will be EXPOSED! Maybe people will even CHERISH my chocolate! That would be so cool. To make this famous, I don’t care what to do! I will go through CONTRACTS, just to make people very EAGER for more chocolate.
When it gets famous, I will RECITE a big speech about my chocolate! Maybe, when my chocolate gets famous, I will too. Hopefully I won’t get too rich, that I will get too MODEST! Now I am feeling to PESSIMIST! I got to go! Then I will start being DRAMATIC!
*Janie writes about cheesecake in almost every entry.
I don’t believe you’ve met Viraj:
If I were to make a candy product it would be called the “Addicting Chocolate Caramel Apple” The wrapper would have an apple walking GRACEFULLY at his kingdom and his men SCURRYING about. He is DISMAYED with his men. Then, there would be caramel and chocolate each carrying a part of the word addicting joining together, and ABRUPTLY falling on the king. The king is FURIOUS. He orders them to be served for dinner. He eats them and DEVELOPS PARALYSIS.
And then, of course, there’s Cody, who’s been smoking that reefer again:
I am going to make first candy. First candy make you do write from wrong and It tells you what to do 1 than 2. The ingredients are a graded test with 100%, and a bettle next a green leaf and then some soft snow and some hard snow. Also you will need ten marbles and a birth day cake that says first candy says you have all the ingredients. Now you just need 20 purple crayon and fire.
Um.
First candy sounds pretty sweet. I love Cody’s creativity.
‘Ten Marbles and a Birthday Cake’ should be the title of your first book.
i love reading your students’ writings!
I’m gonna miss this shit when you teach high school…