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 **Write a paragraph about a girl named Dot, without using letters with dots.**

There was a young lady named Dot. She had blond curls and dark brown eyes. She loved the nature and she always went to the pond near her house. She loved every creature around the pond, even a frog who splashed water onto her dress. One day, Dot went to the pond as usual. But when she went there, stuffs were erroneous. The creatures that had their homes underwater were out of water and the creatures that had to breathe on land, were under water. And when she went closer, she saw a huge, ugly monster under the water. So from that day on, she hated that pond, never went to ponds, and was scared of ponds.  Semester 1, 2009 //Saturday, August 15, 2009// Journal Entry #2 I wonder what it feel like for people to “move”. I mean, because of my dad’s job, I always have to move from one country to another. So far, I went to New Jersey, Korea, Belgrade to Korea, Austria and then here again in Korea. It’s really hard because I always have to get used to a new place every 2-3 years. And every time I move, I feel bad because of my friends, families and other people I was getting along with. And the thing I hate about leaving is that I always cry. I might not cry in the airport, but maybe at school. Who knows. Since I am really emotional, I cry when there’s something sad going on, or at least I feel like crying. So when it comes close to leaving, I get all emotional. I really don’t want to leave again, which I have to someday. I am happy here in Korea, and i enjoy it. Because Korea’s my home country, it’s harder to leave here. There’s all my family living here, and i have more friends in Korea then anywhere else since I come back every 2-3 years. Sometimes, I am actually glad to leave a county. Well, i don’t think I will feel that way in Korea, but when i was in Austria, I didn’t cry when i left. I cried a little at school, but i wasn’t THAT sad. The friends there didn’t do really good with me. They just didn’t seem to fit me. But tears burst out the last day. Well, I didn’t have many “good” friends, so I wasn’t sad as much as when I left other countries. But it’s all the same, weather I have tons of friends or none, I will have to move someday.

Semester 1, 2009

//Sunday, August 16, 2009// Journal Entry #3

It’s the last class of the day and my friend is bored. She taps her fingers and looks at the clock and mumbles “when does this class ever end?” Her eyes are barely opened and she is trying hard not to fall asleep. Only a few minutes passed, and she is still very bored. She tries to concentrate on the subject, and when she couldn’t, she looked for something that will free her from boredom. At last, there was one minute left, and everybody started packing up. Finally she was not bored anymore, and she walks happily out the door.  Semester 1, 2009 //August 18th, 2009//

Journal Entry #4

The object I thought about was the clock. It has a brown frame, and it has all the numbers from 1-12. The clock has a hour hand, a minute hand, and a second hand. The hour hand moves to another number as an hour pass, and the minute hand moves to another number after 5 minutes pass. The second hand moves once in a second. It shows what time it is, and people look at the clock to make sure they are on time for something. There are different kind of clocks. There’s a clock that it only shows numbers, for example 1:30, and there’s clock that shows the numbers and the hands.

Journal Entry #7

Write the things you did this month -August

1. I slept very late at night the last day of summer break because of summer reading 2. I went to school and met all my friends. 3. I had so much homework after a few days of school. 4. Cut my bangs 5. Aunt, Uncle, and my little cousin came to Korea from San Francisco. 6. Had a stomach ache for 2 weeks. 7. Made other friends who wasn't really good friends with me last year. 8. Fought with my sister because of flute. 9. Practiced flute longer that usual because of band. 10.Downloaded lots of music. 11. Listened to the new album of a Korean singer and Enjoyed it. 12. Grandfather came form Japan with three daughters who are in High school and collage. 13. Slept so late for a few days because of homework. 14. Backed-up everything on my computer, preparing for re-imaging. 15. Fought with mom because I did homework until late at night. 16. Got frustrated by the re-imaging thing. 17. Chat with friends a lot. 18. Went to everland with Jane during the Break. 19. Started and prepared for english project. 20. My dad got mad at me because I didn't read many books. 21. Argued with my mom about math tutor. 22. Got punished by math tutor because I didn't finish my homework. 23. Played with my younger cousins a lot. 24. Got a new case of macbook. 25. Downloaded new applications to mac. 26. Became friends with new kid in KIS -

Prompt #8

-Write a paragraph about a cat attacking something, but don’t use the words, hiss, scratch or pounce.

A cat was sleeping, and then she heard something move. Her ears pointed up, and her eyes suddenly opened. There, if front of her was a small mouse. The cat slowly got up without making a sound. She was ready to attack, preparing to jump. When she did, the mouse noticed and turned around. The cat did not miss its chance and jumped, but the mouse was faster. It went a few steps, stopped, and looked back again. It stuck its tongue out. The cat got really angry, and started running faster towards the mouse again. However, the mouse was quicker this time, too. It ran and ran right in front of a small mouse hole, and stopped. It looked like it was waiting for the cat to come. The cat lost control and ran so fast, that it was like lightning, but the mouse only had to move two steps in order to get into its home. So the mouse when in, and the cat bumped its nose on the wall. From that day on, the cat never chased the mouse.

Prompt 11

-Fatima is a very spoiled teenage girl. show that she is spoiled. by describing what happens when she doesn’t get a car for her birthday.

Now that Fatima is a teenager, she wants to get a car for her birthday. She is very excited about it, but when she asks her parents, she figures that they won’t let her have one. Her hope flew away with the Autumn wind. She started bragging, unlike a teenager girl and when her mom starts screaming, saying no, she starts to cry. She says to her mom that she will leave the house if her parents don’t buy her a car for her birthday. She keeps on bragging and crying, until her mom gets so mad that she goes in her room, shut the door very hard, and lock it. Fatima stops crying and stare at the room her mom went in, with confused eyes, surprised by the reaction her mom never did. She sniffs a little and then starts crying again. She also goes to the door, and then bangs on it saying “Mom!!! I need a car!”. When there’s no reply from her mom, she screams like a little baby who wants to buy a toy. Of course she’s a teenager, so she stopped crying after a about 20 minutes, but she didn’t forget about the car. She bugged her mother every time they met, and every day even though her birthday passed. Her parents bought her some other present, but she never even touched it.

Prompt 12

Describe what you feel right now using your sense of smell. If you feel frustrated, write about what your frustration smells like. Use vivid words. Don’t skimp on adjectives.

I am feeling very frustrated right now. Everything smells disgusting, and weird. My frustration smells like smoke. It smells very bad, and when I smell it, it makes me cough a lot. When my frustration gets worse, the dark smoke gets worse, too. Then it feels like crying, like when you smell smoke, It is definitely, not a pleasant smell, and its the kind of a smell I don’t want to smell it ever again. But every time, when I get frustrated, I smell the smoke. It smells not only like smoke, but it also smells like the trash can. It smells like rotten food. The scent is worse than smoke. It is very gross, and nobody wants to smell the kind of smell I smell when I am frustrated.

Prompt 13

What kind of cartoon show might appeal to the overage 65 audience? Imagine the show. Then, in 100 words or less, describe the show and its main character.

 There was an old man named Billy. He goes the groceries every weekend instead his lazy wife. He takes a lot of money, saying that he wants to eat a lot. He goes off with his don’t-worry-about-me smile. Billy, changes direction from the groceries and goes to the toy shop. He buys a doll that looks like him and names it Billy 100. He has 99 more toy like him at home. Then he goes to the groceries and buys cooked pasta. When he’s home, his wife screams her head off and he guesses that this is his last day on Earth.

Prompt 14

Electricity is recent discovery. Think of 12 things to do when there is no power.

1. Use candles to read 2. use some lanterns to lighten house 3. use fire to cook 4. use ice box to store foods that has to be in the fridge. 5. use a handy fan instead of a fan or air conditioner. 6. Use stuff with battery instead of electricity. 7. See newsletters instead of watching news on TV. 8. Use towels instead of hair dryers. 9. use a handy pencil sharpener instead of electric ones. 10. use normal guitar instead of electric guitar. 11. use cellphones instead of house phones. 12. play outside instead of computer games.

Prompt 15

Place this sentence in a paragraph where it will make sense: Bea had never wanted to be a bee.

 Bea had never wanted to be a bee. She was a little girl, who actually hated bees. She hated the buzzing sound the bees made, and she started to scream whenever the bees came really close to him. Bea was her nickname for Beatrice, and she hated her nickname. It sounded like the insect bee, and she sometimes got teased by her own classmates that she was a bee. Some kids or teachers misspells her name and writes "Bee" instead of "Bea". Nobody listens when she says to people that she wants them to call her her real name rather than her nickname,. She tried asking her parents to change her name, but they just said, "I like your name very much, and that is why we named you that way". Bea was unhappy, but she decided to live with it, after she saw a very pretty person who's name is Beatrice, and has a nickname called Bea.

Prompt 16

List 10 things you usually do on a rainy day. Pick one from you list and freewrite for 5 minutes.


 * 1) Stay home and read
 * 2) Bring an umbrella when you go out.
 * 3) Go out and look for worms
 * 4) Stare at the window and look at the rain falling down.
 * 5) Turn all the lights on so that it’s not dark inside.
 * 6) Watch a movie instead of going out and playing.
 * 7) Play with a friend at their or my house.
 * 8) Take a long nap.
 * 9) Listen to the rain falling
 * 10) Call a friend on the phone and talk for a while.

4. Stare at the window and look at the rain falling down. It was a rainy day and no one was at home. I came back from school and as I entered my home, I could hear the rain falling harder. It was loud and lightning and thunder was roaring to each other. I sat at my desk, wondering what to do. It was boring when nobody was home. I stared down at the window, chewing gum. The cars were rushing down the street, splashing water to the sidewalks. The dogs in the neighborhoods were barking at the cars. Some were out and whimpering, getting hit by a thousand little drops of water. The sky was gray, and the lightning was lightning up the streets for a second, turning the sky fire-blue. The buildings were all wet. They looked like the people on the streets who didn't have umbrellas. They looked so hopeless. I couldn't see the people's faces because they were covered with their umbrellas, There were different kinds and colors of umbrellas. They looked like a rainbow and sunshine in the gray day.

Prompt 17

Write a rhyme paragraph. Each sentence must begin and end with the words that rhyme with each other. an example: Spring is a wonderful thing. Flowers start to sprout with the help of rain showers.

Prompt 18 (Free write)

Today at school, we went to the low ropes corse in Yangphung. We were so excited and my heart was lighter than before as we went on the bus.

Prompt 19 Use this metaphor to spark a poem: A chest of childhood

Memories

Where's your chest of childhood? Mine is in my heart. Sometimes other memories replace my old childhood, But there's always special ones which can't be erased. Some memories glow red, and I can remember them clearly, But some of them has a fading orange color, and is not as clear.

Where's you chest of childhood? Mine is in the map on my wall. The countries remind me of the places we went, and all my friends. I can still taste the food in that country when I look at the shape of it, And I can see the beautiful sights that made me almost faint. The countries remind me of all the things I did when I was little.

Where's your chest of childhood? Mine is in all my friends' eyes. I can see me playing with them when I was small. I can feel me getting younger and playing the old games. We run playing tag, and we play hide-and-seek.

Prompt 21

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Everyone goes out after the bell rang, and swoosh came the fall breeze that made the children even happier. Chirp,chirp, the birds also sing along as the students sings with their wonderful voices. Whoosh, they swing their arms like they are crazy and run home. Ding dong, the bells rings and the mothers opens the door for the joyful children. Boing boing, the kids hop and jump up the stairs into their room. When they go in, they start doing whatever they want. Beep, buzz, how happily they play games.======

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It was Chusuk last Saturday. We had the whole week off. It was really exciting to have the whole week and I planned to play with my friends one day. Well, Chusuk break wasn't as fun as I thought it will be. I still had to do all my tutor things, and on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, I had to go far away from Seoul and to my grandmother, grandfather's house. My tutor was on Monday, and Thursday. I had something on Tuesday so there was time only on Wednesday. I was really upset that I was actually busier than normal school days. I got mad at my mom for not letting me have a break on my tutors. My friends and I talked with each other in iChat, and decided to go to Seoul Land on Wednesday. I was kind of satisfied then, but I still had a lot of things to do on Thursday.======

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On Wednesday, I woke up early and went to Jane's house to pick her and Hyerim up. We went to Jasmine's house and rode her mom's car in order to go to Seoul Land. When we arrived, we went to the gate and bought our tickets. Our first ride was not a roller coaster, but it was really fun. All four of us could ride on it, and it spun around fast, and high. We sang along with the music, and I don't know why, but we kept on laughing.======

Prompt #23 -They say opposites attract. Use at least five paris of opposites in a paragraph about some kind of transportation.

Examples: weak/strong loud/quiet high/low

There was a girl who wasn't sure what to ride to get to her grandmother's house. She could ride a car, bus, subway, bicycle, or she could walk. The car was small and the bus was big. The car was private and the bus was public. The bicycle, bus, and the subway was fast but walking was slow, but walking is healthy and the subway was unhealthy. The car, bus, taking the subway and walking was safe enough, but bicycle was dangerous because there were a lot of cars on the street. The car was quiet and the subway and bus was loud. She couldn't decide so she asked her mother instead.

Prompt #24 -Weave a story around this mixed proverb: Silence is a great healer.

Silence is a great healer. He goes around the village and heals people that are sick. He has medicine, tons of band-aids, and other things that fills his suitcase. When somebody calls him he goes to the house with the speed of lightning. When he reaches the house, he knocks on the door, and then he goes in. He looks at the patient and ask him what is wrong. When the patient tells him where it's hurting, he opens his suitcase and look for the right tool to heal the patient. Surprisingly, he never have failed to heal a person. Everyone who wanted to get healed by him was always okay after the next day. He was called "Silence" be the villagers because he never talked while he was fixing the problem except when he asked what was wrong. Whenever people were sick or hurt, they would call Silence and nobody else.

Prompt #25 -Write a paragraph that starts with this sentence: the grass smells red.

The grass smells red. It is burning in fire. There are the red glowing everywhere. The fire is so strong that even everything smells red. The grass is turning brown, smelling red. The red glowing is getting worse, and all the plants are being burnt. The forest animals are busy running away. The old houses also smells red. The red glowing wouldn't stop like the villagers thought. It lasted the whole night. When the fire went out, there were almost nothing there, and it was all black and smelled like black. Ashes everywhere, there were no sight of any animals. The flowers lay their head down, all in black. The trees smells black and gray, too, but it looks like they are still breathing.

Prompt #26

-Chris walks into a room. By describing only the reactions of the others in the room, let us know something about him.

Chris walks into the classroom. The students that were talking like crazy hurried to their desks. The students stared at Chris and he said "read". The children opened their books and they looked at each other and giggled without making noise. They kept on reading and looked at each other, but they were scared that Chris would catch them. When Chris stood up from his desk and the kids dropped their books into their bags and giggled again. Chris went out the door without saying any words and the students got up again and talked with their friends again.

Prompt #27 -Free Write

Yesterday evening, our school had a concert. The band, orchestra and choir was in it. My friends and I stayed after school. It was fun since it was my first time staying after school with my fiends at KIS. Mr. Londgren, the band teacher, and Mr. Kvam, the orchestra teacher were very busy moving around. We changed closed, then practiced and hung around until 5 o'clock when we had to stay in the music rooms. When the choir people finished, we went to the PAC and got ready to play. There were tons and tons of people sitting on the seats, and it was very crowded. There were even people in the middle school. I was sort of nervous since I was way at front where everyone could see me., but it got better after I played a song. Our band, Varsity Band, played one piece and got out of stage for a while. Then, we combined with another group. It was much more better because even if I made a mistake, people wouldn't hear it since it was a huge group. We played four pieces. Extreme, Varsity Band solo piece, and African Spirit Dance, St. Petersburg March, and the final piece, Concherto for Faculty and Band which had the best reaction.

Prompt #28 -Write from the point of view of a freshly scrubbed floor.

I just got scrubbed by my owner. She scrubbed so hard that it hurt, but I kept still in the thought of getting clean. Even though I can't see my self, my friend, the ceiling, told me that I was shiny, and I couldn't be more shiny than now. I was very happy for a moment, but as soon as the guests, who were supposed to come twenty minutes later, came in and stepped on me. The ceiling frowned and I knew that I was dirty again. Now I knew, floors were never clean since people step on you every second. From that day on, I wasn't happy and joyful when I got my self scrubbed, and i hated the feeling to be scrubbed. It sometimes scratched the wood on me.

Prompt #29 -Some say you can tell a lot about a person by the vehicle he or she drives. Picture a car ( Or is it a truck? or an SUV?) -In your mind, rummage thought this car. Check it out from every angle - Describe the car or the man or woman who goes with it.

There is a car in the parking lot. It is a race car sort of looking car, and it looked like it was pretty rare. When I looked inside, there is only two seats and it's very clean inside. I imagined that the owner of this car really

Prompt #30 -Free write

My friends and I went to Coex last Saturday. I went with Jasmine Lim, Hyerim, and Jane. We met in front of the place where you buy movie tickets, and we went to go shopping. We bought Jasmine and I bought chocolate-vanilla flavored ice cream, and

Prompt #33 -Reflect on the process of writing a short story. What did you learn from the process? If you had the assignment again, how would you approach it?

Prompt #35

Three people are stuck in a n elevator: - a teenager with green hair and many piercing - a pastry chef - a church organist Write a conversation they have as they wait.

Teenager: wow, this is cool. We're stuck here. Church organist: Stay clam. Since we pressed the emergency bell, someone's going to come. Pastry chef: Ugh, I am supposed to be delivering this cake to the fifteenth floor four minutes ago! Church organist: Tell them we were stuck in an elevator. Pastry chef: I am so unlucky Teenager: Hey, it feels like the elevator is moving again! Pastry chef & church organist: Hurray!!

Prompt #38 -Free Write

Last week, I was sick. I had a little bit of fever, so my mom took me to a nearby hospital. We waited until our name was called, and when we went in the doctor's room, he examined me. After talking for a while, he said it might be the h1n1 flu. I was pretty shocked. They weren't sure, but I still needed to check.

Prompt #39 -What would you do with three wishes

My first wish would be: let me have a dog. I want to have a dog. My mom doesn't like animals, so I can't have one. I wanted to have a dog from

Prompt #40

What's your idea of the perfect vacation?

Prompt #42 -As this is being written a show called "What Not to Wear" is popular on the cable cannel TLC. Imagine more possible shows on a "what not to do" theme. Describe at least one idea. (Don't forget to give the show name.)

Prompt #43 For the last two days you were not in school because of the weather "snow days". As advanced we have become in the 21st century, we still can not control the weather do you think this is an advantage or a disadvantage?

I think not being able to control the weather is a disadvantage. There are lots of places where droughts occur often, and there is not a lot of rain. In these places, living is hard and animals keep dying. When there's no water, the plants can't grow and if there are no plants, herbivores have a hard living. On the other hand, if there are too much rain, it can lead to huge floods. People in the world loose their family and their home due to floods. If we could control the weather, we could make it rain, just the amount needed. Just like rain, when it snows hard, It is hard to drive, and when the snow turn into ice, it is very dangerous. There can be lots of accidents, and people can slip.

Journal Entry #46

-Write about a memory related to a holiday

It was Christmas eve. We were at our aunt's house in San Francisco. My little cousin was very excited and he was jumping all around that night. I really wanted a dog and hoped that I will get one this year. Unfortunately, I couldn't, not only because my mother doesn't like dogs, it was because I was in another country, far away from Austria, where I lived then. I decided to let my parents give me anything. We ate dinner outside, where we could see the beach. It was a seafood restaurant. I hated seafood, but today, I didn't feel hate when our parents chose to go there. We ate dinner happily, and filled our stomachs with oysters, crabs, lobsters and more. On the way back home, the three of us, my sister, my cousin and myself were talking about what we want to get for our Christmas present

Journal Entry #47

-Madison is so happy. In one paragraph, show that she is happy, but use the word happy.

Madison was in a piano contest yesterday. She was very nervous about her score. The next day, she ran to the mail box, and she saw a little letter colored with pink. She carefully pulled it out. It said that it came to her, and her address was written. She unfolded the letter, and read carefully. It said all kind of stuff; it said Madison did a fantastic job, and the audience liked it. There were some more compliments. At the bottom, there were words that shocked Madison...1ST PLACE: MADISON!!! Madison was so thrilled and she was so excited. There wasn't a day when she was as happy as today. She hurried to her mother, with a very big grin on her face. Her mother made a humongous smile and then laughed. She said to Madison that she was so proud of her daughter. Madison giggled sheepishly, and she was very proud of her self. This day was the best day ever in her life.

Journal Entry #48

- In one sentence, describe something (not someone) that is very ugly. Create a vividly ugly image with words.

The dog had wrinkles with dropping ears, uncombed fur and was very skinny.

Journal Entry #49

Write from the point of view of a TV remote control.

When no one is home, kids are at school and their parents are at work, the dog is sleeping and when the cat meows softly, I rest on the sofa. The kids pressed the last button of the day, the power button, and left me there on the sofa. In someone's eye, it may look like I'm poor, but to me it is the best part of the day. I stretch my plastic body as much as I can and enjoy the time. Just then there comes the sound of the key coming through the keyhole and unlocks it. The door slowly opens and then, a little kid comes in. The cat ran away, and the dog was barking. Oh my god. Now, the bad part started. The kid patted the dog to be quiet, and ran towards the sofa I was resting on. She came closer but suddenly sat on me. She said, "Hey, where's the remote control?" I badly wanted to tell her that she was sitting on me, but there was no way that she would notice. She stood up and spun around and found me. She picked my up so fast that it felt like I was riding a roller coaster. Then she pressed the power button. She raised the volume a little too high. I couldn't understand why she needed to have the volume on so that it could be heard