1. Ask the students to call out any familiar places they feel strongly about (their bedroom, a favorite cafe, and so on).

2. Give each student an envelope that contains a portrait, photo, or drawing of a person.

3. Ask the students to write a short story that incorporates one of the settings they’ve called out with the person whose picture they’ve received.

This lesson is from the WritersCorps book “Jump Write In!”

1. Have students pair up.

2. Ask each student to write two one-page stories. The first story is about an early childhood memory, and the second is about a day on public transportation.

3. Ask the students to cut each story into separate lines and place the lines in one pile, then shuffle them.

4. Each person in the pair takes half of the pile, then pieces them together into a complete story.

This lesson is from the WritersCorps book “Jump Write In!”

1. Set up a still life with interesting things to look at.

2. Let students handle and explore the objects.

3. Give students one minute to start writing a story.

4. When the minute is over, ask them to fold over the lines they wrote, except for the last line, and pass the paper to the person on their right.

5. Ask students to read the last line on the papers and pick up the story from there, writing for one minute.

6. Tell students when the line they are writing will be the story’s end.

Lesson is from the WritersCorps book “Jump Write In!”