LEAP Writing Prompts Examples

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How is the process of refining and marketing the phonograph similar to the development of the Audio Spotlight in “Psst . . . Hey, You.”?

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Research Simulation

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How does the dialogue in passages by Charles Dickens and James Joyce function to reveal aspects of the characters?

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Literary Analysis

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Beginning after paragraph 9, write an alternate ending to the folktale using details about the characters and events from the passage. You may choose to use dialogue in your new ending.

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Narrative Writing

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How does each person’s point of view shape the reader’s understanding of the miners’ lives in “Klondike Gold Rush,” “A Woman Who Went to Alaska,” and the narrator of the transcript from “City of Gold”?

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Research Simulation

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Compare the way the authors use first-person point of view to develop the characters in the novels The Georges and the Jewels and Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse.

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Literary Analysis

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Write a narrative in which you continue the story of “Believing in Horses”. Your narrative should be a believable continuation of the events, and it should clearly reflect the characterization and setting in the passage.

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Narrative Writing

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What type of writing is required to compare and contrast the evidence from the articles "The Stripes Will Survive," "The Zoos Go Wild," and "Our Beautiful Macaws and Why They Need Enrichment" regarding the role of zoos in protecting animals?

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Research Simulation

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How do the narrator in A Single Shard and the speaker in “Turn, Turn, My Wheel” respond to the potters in each text?

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Literary Analysis

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What type of writing is Alice doing when she retells her journey down the rabbit hole to her sister?

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Narrative Writing

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What type of writing is required to describe and compare the challenges faced by Stef and Darnell?

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Literary Analysis