Directions: You will receive a prompt on an index card. You will have 5
minutes to get acquainted with it. Examine its meaning, peer into its soul
and decide how to make conversation with it for a pre-write. You don't
have to actually write the essay, just flirt with the concepts,
brainstorming, listing possible novel or play titles, developing universal
"get global, get noble" themes, listing character names, ideas about
authors, developing various ideas about the type of work of "literary
merit" the prompt would require, or anything else that would be important
IF you had to spend 40 minutes, a serious commitment in terms of AP
dating/writing

At the end of 5 minutes, I will call time and you will pass the prompt on
the next student, receiving a new one in turn. After 35 minutes, we will
stop and assess your responses.

We will repeat this a few times so that we encounter so that each of you
will encounter a myriad of partners.