Just Write 5th Grade

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Table of Contents

Just Write

Create Your Own Store

A Secret Door

Travel the World

The Last Person on Earth

Magic Time Machine

The Treasure Chest

Award Speech

New Species of Animal

How to Write Like Jack London

How to Write Like Mark TwainHow to Write Like Jack Kerouac

How to Write Like Ray Bradbury

How to Write Like C.S. Lewis

How to Write Like Edgar Allen Poe

How to Write Like J.R.R. Tolkien

How to Write Like Jules Verne

How to Write Like Rudyard Kipling

How to Write Like Robert Louis StevensonHow to Write Like Stephen King

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WRITING PROMPTRITIN PROMPTPretend you have a magic time machine that can take you back to another time and place.

Write a story about where you would go and what might happen there.


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Jenny digs up a treasure chest on the beach, and it turns out to be nothing but cursed with bad

luck. What happens when she tries to bury it again?

WRITING PROMPTRITIN PROMPT


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Congratulations! Youve just won an award for the thing you do best. What

is your prize, and how did you win it? Write a speech describing how you

accomplished your great feat and thanking anyone who helped you.

Creative Writing


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How to Write Like... Jack LondonIf you want to write like a particular person it is good to study their work, but it is even better to study the peoplethat influenced them. Jack London is one of Americas most famous and influential writers. His stories and novels

oen had adventure themes dealing with survival and mans relationship with nature. He was heavily influencedby writers like Mark Twain and Leo Tolstoy, as well as the studies of Charles Darwin which were new in his time.

Mark Twain: Twain was a writer finishing his ca-reer just as London was starting his. His use of

Charles Darwin:Darwin was the first scientist topromote and provide solid evidence for the theoryof evolution on a large scale. His ideas on livingthings adapting to their environments and compe-tition for survival were a major part of LondonsCall of the Wild.

How have all those exquisite adaptations ofone part of the organisation to another part, andto the conditions of life, and of one distinct or-

ganic being to another being been perfected? Wesee these beautiful coadaptations most plainlyin the woodpecker and mistletoe; and only alittle less plainly in the humblest parasite whichclings to the hairs of a quadroped or feathers ofa bird; in the structure of the beetle which divesthrough the water; in the plumed seed which iswaed by the gentlest breeze; in short, we seebeautiful adaptations everywhere and in everypart of the organic world.

Leo Tolstoy: Tolstoy is considered one of theworlds greatest writers. He was a Russian novelistwhose writing dealt with morals, religion and socialstructure. He influenced Londons belief in Social-ism and morality in his work.

For three straight days, during which timeceased to exist for him, he struggled desperatelyin that black sack into which an unseen, invin-cible force was thrusting him. He struggled as a

man condemned to death struggles in the handsof an executioner, knowing there is no escape.

-e Death of Ivan Ilyich(1886)


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How to Write Like... Mark TwainIf you want to write like a particular person it is good to study their work, but it is even better to study the peoplethat influenced them. Mark Twain is one of Americas most famous writers and has been given credit for being

the first world class writer who was distinctly American. Much of his inspiration was drawn from his childhoodon the frontier of Missouri. He has cited Cervantes as an important author to him and was helped along in hiswriting career by contemporaries such as William Dean Howells. Learn to write like Twain by studying excerptsfrom writers and sources he drew inspiration from:

William Dean Howells: Howells was a contempo-rary of Mark Twain and the occassional editor ofhis work. e majority of Howells writing was incriticism where he rejected romanticism in fictionand advocated simple truth and sincerity. Below hecriticizes the British literature of his time.

Doubtless the ideal of those poor island-ers will be finally changed. If the truth couldbecome a fad it would be accepted by all theirsmart people, but truth is something rather toolarge for that; and we must await the gradualadvance of civilization among them. en theywill see that their criticism has misled them ;

and that it is to this false guide they owe, notprecisely the decline of fiction among them, butits continued debasement as an art.

Miguel De Cervantes: Don Quixoteis the most fa-mous and only successful book Cervantes wrote.In it he aimed to mock the outdated and unrealis-tic ideas of chivalry that were common in the lit-erature of his time. e same romantic ideas thatCervantes criticized became popular again in thelitereature of Mark Twains time and he attacked

them in a similar fashion.

Take care, your worship Said Sancho; osethings over there are not giants but windmills.and what seem to be their arms are the sails,which are whirled round in the wind and makethe millstone turn.

It is quite clear, replied Don Quixote, that youare not experienced in this matter of adventures.ey are giants, and if you are afraid, go awayand say your prayers, whilst I advance and en-


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How to Write Like... Jack KerouacIf you want to write like a particular person it is good to study their work, but it is even better to study the people

from writers he drew inspiration from:

short story writer from the early 20th century. He-

enced by his own life, a similar style used in Ker-

ouacs most famous novel On the Road.

A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain,and so lost. He has everything and he is able touse nothing.

-Of Time and the River(1935)

Jack London: Jack London was a writer living in

passed. He used his experiences traveling to create

Indeed I had noticed that delicious, rhyth-mic, breathing. Each morning I had watched

the sea breeze begin at the shore and slowlyextend seaward as it blew the mildest, soest

just faintly darkening its surface, with here and--

cious kisses of the breeze. And each evening I

had watched the sea breath die away to heavenly


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How to Write Like... Ray BradburyIf you want to write like a particular person it is good to study their work, but it is even better to study the people

Fahrenheit 451.

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H.G. Wells: Wells was an English writer and critic

writer.

Jules Verne:Verne was a French writer who wrote

today. Bradbury read much of Vernes work when

he was young.

of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure andhealthy. It is an immense desert, where man isnever lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.

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ral and wonderful existence. It is nothing but

-(1870)

Edgar Allan Poe: Poe was a 19th century Americanshort story writer and poet. He is known forhis dark horror stories with very fantastical themes.

carelessly thrown himself down to rest that theweightier portion of his body hung over it, whilehe was only kept from falling by the tenure ofhis elbow on its extreme and slippery edge --this

of black shining rock, some fieen or sixteenhundred feet from the world of crags beneathus. Nothing would have tempted me to withinhalf a dozen yards of its brink.

-A Descent Into Maelstrom (1841)


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How to Write Like... Edgar Allan Poe

Samuel Coleridge: Coleridge was another Englishpoet from the early 1800s. He is considered to have

John Keats:Keats was an English poet from the

following poem of his contains several references

to Greek mythology.

As Hermes once took to his feathers light,

So on a Delphic reed, my idle spright

Not to pure Ida with its snow-cold skies,Nor unto Tempe, where Jove grieved a day;But to that second circle of sad Hell,

Of rain and hail-stones, lovers need not tell

Pale were the lips I kissed, and fair the form

-A Dream...

Lord Byron: Byron was an English poet from theearly 1800s who was a part of the Romantic move-

I had a dream, which was not all a dream.

Did wander darkling in the eternal space,Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earthSwung blind and blackening in the moonless

air;

Morn came and went--and came, and broughtno day,

And men forgot their passions in the dreadOf this their desolation; and all hearts

-Darkness

If you want to write like a particular person it is good to study his work, but it is even better to study the peoplewho influenced him. Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer and poet from the mid 1800s most famous for his

poem e Raven, as well as horror/mystery stories such as e Telltale Heart.He was mostly influenced by Europeanpoets and the Romantic movement. While he was writing, America was still a very young country with very littlehistory in literature or art.


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How to Write Like... J.R.R. TolkienIf you want to write like a particular person it is good to study their work, but it is even better to study the people

famous for the Lord of the Rings

William Shakespeare: Shakespeare is Englandsmost famous playwright. His work covers areas

on nearly all later English writers, including Tolk-ien.

MESSENGER

As I did stand my watch upon the hill,I looked toward Birnam, and anon methought

MACBETH

Liar and slave!

MESSENGERLet me endure your wrath, if t be not so.Within this three mile may you see it coming;

I say, a moving grove.

-Macbeth (1603)C.S. Lewis:Lewis was a contemporary and friendof Tolkien. Both of them worked in fantasy and re-

Beowulf: Beowulf is one of the earliest pieces ofknown English literature. It is an epic poem basedin Norse mythology.

loving clansmen, as late he charged them,while wielded words the winsome Scyld,the leader beloved who long had ruled....In the roadstead rocked a ring-dight vessel,

there laid they down their darling lordon the breast of the boat, the breaker-of-rings,by the mast the mighty one. Many a treasurefetched from far was freighted with him.

-Beowulf (8th century)

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How to Write Like... Jules VerneIf you want to write like a particular person it is good to study their work, but it is even better to study the people

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and fantasy.

Sir Walter Scott:Scott was a Scottish writer who

popularized the historical novel. Much of his work

was based on medieval Europe and the culture of

chivalry.

In that pleasant district of merry Englandwhich is watered by the river Don, there ex-tended in ancient times a large forest, coveringthe greater part of the beautiful hills and valleyswhich lie between Sheffield and the pleasant

-sive wood are still to be seen at the noble seats

Rotherham. Here haunted of yore the fabulousDragon of Wantley; here were fought many ofthe most desperate battles during the Civil Wars

times those bands of gallant outlaws whose

deeds have been rendered so popular in Englishsong.

Victor Hugo: Hugo was a famous French writerin 1800s who wrote the Hunchback of Notre Dameand many other books. He was a part of the Ro-

mantic Movement that favored imagination andemotion over strict science and logic.

upper platform, still bearing the gipsy in hisarms, still running wildly along, still shoutingSanctuary! and the crowd still applauding. At

last he made a third appearance on the summitof the tower of the great bell. From thence heseemed to show exultingly to the whole city thefair creature he had saved; and his thunderingvoice, that voice which was heard so seldom,and which he never heard at all, thrice repeatedwith frantic vehemence, even in the very clouds,Sanctuary! Sanctuary! Sanctuary!

-Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831)


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How to Write Like... Rudyard Kipling

Robert Louis Stevenson: Stevenson was one of themost popular English authors in the late 1800s.

Charles Dickens:Dickens was Englands favoritewriter while Kipling was young. Kipling began hiswriting career in England and was considered by

some to be the next Dickens.

It was a town of red brick, or of brick thatwould have been red if the smoke and ashes hadallowed it; but as matters stood, it was a townof unnatural red and black like the painted faceof a savage. It was a town of machinery and tall

chimneys, out of which interminable serpents ofsmoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, andnever got uncoiled. It had a black canal in it, anda river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, and

vast piles of building full of windows where therewas a rattling and a trembling all day long, andwhere the piston of the steam-engine workedmonotonously up and down, like the head of an

elephant in a state of melancholy madness.

-Hard Times (1854)

Indian folk tales: Kipling was born and partly-

ture had a large impact on his own writing.

Once upon a time there was a king calledBrahmadatta who was ruling in Benares, innorthern India. One night he had 16 frighten-ing nightmare dreams. He awoke in the morningin a cold sweat, with his heart thumping loudly

death. He was sure they meant that somethingterrible was about to happen. In a panic, he

-Jataka Tales: (300 B.C.)

If you want to write like a particular person it is good to study his work, but it is even better to study the peoplewho influenced him. Rudyard Kipling is one of Englands most famous novelists and poets, and the author of

e Jungle Book. Many of his stories took place in the Far East and have adventure themes. He was influencedby his own childhood in India, as well as by the major English writers of his time.


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How to Write Like... Robert Louis StevensonIf you want to write like a particular person it is good to study their work, but it is even better to study the people

books such as Treasure Islandand . Much of his work was inspired by histravels and European and American authors the generation before his.

Walt Whitman:Whitman is one of Americas most

free-verse, not using rhymes. His ideas and writing

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the jour-ney work of the stars.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,

For every atom belonging to me as good be-longs to you.

Clear and sweet is my soul, and clear and sweetis all that is not my soul.

- Leaves of Grass (1855)

1001 Arabian Nights: 1001 Arabian Nightsis a col-lection of stories from the Middle East compiled

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enced by the charm and history of the tales.

His name was King Mohammed bin Sulaymanal-Zayni, and he had two Wazirs, one called Al-Muin, son of Sawi and the other Al-Fazl son ofKhakan. Now Al-Fazl was the most generous ofthe people of his age, upright of life, so that all

to him for counsel; whilst the subjects used topray for his long life, because he was a compen-dium of the best qualities, encouraging the goodand lief, and preventing evil and mischief. Butthe Wazir Muin bin Sawi on the contrary hat-ed folk and loved not the good and was a merecompound of ill; even as was said of him,

- 1001 Arabian Nights


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How to Write Like... Stephen KingIf you want to write like a particular person it is good to study their work, but it is even better to study the people

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century. He is considered one of the 20th centurys

Immediately upon beholding this amulet weknew that we must possess it; that this treasurealone was our logical pelf from the centuriedgrave. Even had its outlines been unfamiliar wewould have desired it, but as we looked more

closely we saw that it was not wholly unfamiliar.Alien it indeed was to all art and literature whichsane and balanced readers know, but we recog-nised it as the thing hinted of in the forbiddenNecronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhaz-red; the ghastly soul-symbol of the corpse-eatingcult of inaccessible Leng, in Central Asia..

- (1922)

Bram Stoker: Stoker was an Irish writer from theearly 20th century. He is most famous for his novelDracula.

He and his wife, the old lady who had receivedme, looked at each other in a frightened sort ofway. He mumbled out that the money had beensent in a letter, and that was all he knew. When Iasked him if he knew Count Dracula, and couldtell me anything of his castle, both he and his

wife crossed themselves, and, saying that theyknew nothing at all, simply refused to speakfurther. It was so near the time of starting that Ihad no time to ask anyone else, for it was all verymysterious and not by any means comforting.

- Dracula (1897)

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