1. teacher will fill an assortment of sandwich baggies with small slips of paper-- each slip has one word on it.
2. students will each get a baggy.
3. students will write a poem or short story incorporating the words they've been given (of course they can use other words as well).
4. teacher should specify the desired length of poem/story.
* this assignment can also be done with a partner or in small groups, with each student contributing the words in their baggy
* teacher can modify the difficulty of assignment simply by modifying the difficulty of the words, depending on grade level, reading level, etc.
* this assignment could be utilized to incorporate new vocabulary words, spelling words, foreign language words, etc.
