In honor of the up-and-coming summer vacation, I pose to you this question (in three parts): 
Part One: The Golden, Endless Summer
What is one golden summer that will live as clear as ever in your memory?  Why?  What distinguishes it from all other summers to date?  How old were you?  

Part Two - Survival
This summer promises to be a scorcher--I, myself, have hot blood and am thus ill-equipped for these extreme temperatures (anything above 85 degrees Fahrenheit pains me)--how do you fare in hot weather?  Are you a basker-in-the-sun, slow-roasting your exterior (use sunblock!!!) and needing a sweater for any temp. below 75?  Or do you need the cool, dark indoors with either an air conditioner or a freezer nearby at all times?

Part Three - Plans?
Yes, it's just around the bend--vacation!  What do you hope to do? What is one thing you know you 
 
Think about a time when you knew someone was lying about something and decided to confront them about it.  What did you say?  How did you approach the situation?  Have you ever a lie go "free"?  What do you think compels a person to lie? 
 
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Start a poem with a word that begins with the letter 'A', moving along the alphabet (English, please) for each successive word.  The poem must follow these directions and must make sense somehow.

For example
All brown cows dive Enigmatically
Forward, going
Heavy into jumps,
Kaleidoscopic.  


That's A through K. How far can you get?  


(The first student who gets to Z will receive a starbucks gift card and a 'Do Good Lottery' ticket !!  Remember, poetry can be abstract, but good poetry always makes sense somehow...your poem must make sense - this means you may be asked to provide an explanation !)

 
Option 1 - Have you ever surprised or scared yourself with a revelation that something was/is true or false?  Write about it.  

Option 2 - Write about a time in your life when you were confronted by someone, or a group of people, for having unpopular views.  
 
I was angry with my friend; I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe; I told it not, my wrath did grow."
                                                                                 - William Blake
 
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history, and that is the most important of all the lessons of history."
                                                                                - Aldous Huxley

What do you think Huxley meant to say with this quote?
 
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Some things you can think/write about:
 
What's happening here?
Who is the man?
What is the curved entity?
Where is this?

Now, write a story about this picture.

 
...is an incessant and stressful dream that happens at the end of a sleep cycle, keeping you in that purgatorial space between waking life and snooze, making it virtually impossible to snub the feeling for hours after starting your day, and therefore making just about everything in the world difficult.  
Hey brain - thanks a lot, you jerk!

Write you own "worst thing" about what your brain does sometimes that makes life difficult for you.
 
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The phrase "I'm having a Morpheus moment" shall henceforth mean "to experience deja vu." Why?  Because I just had a Morpheus moment, and my mind went there.  It may have something to do with that scene in The Matrix when Neo sees a black cat and does a double take, seeing the exact same cat do the exact same thing.  This, by the way, isn't exactly deja vu, is it? 

I've heard many theories about what deja vu is.  Share your own Morpheus moments and/or thoughts on what they are or mean. 

 
Continue this story: 
The six villages of Westerly Island are not peaceful. Countless wars drove the leaders of each village to come to certain terms, granting each of the six villages a separate piece of the island to inhabit. Westerly Island's Moray Mountain is one of the most fierce volcanoes in the world, rumored to spit its angry molten bowels and toxic effluvium miles into the sky every summer. The island suffered an immense volcanic eruption last year, laying waste to everything in its blind, raging path. This summer marks the coming of a new age, wherein it has been prophesied that the people of all the villages will have to band together to defeat a common foe.

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