Fluency, Originality, Flexibility & Elaboration

Take An Issue

• Students will be presented with a problem that needs investigating. Working individually, students brainstorm solutions.
• As a whole group, they will share their ideas with one another, encouraging deeper insights.
• After discussion, students will select and then work in small groups to brainstorm keyword search terms.  
• Students will take the work they've done and create a potential thesis statement, which will then be edited in small groups.
  

Creative Writing

• Students work in pairs to write a story.  
• Teacher provides the basic structure, and students take turns adding detail to the story. 
• Once this activity is complete, student groups share with other groups. Students can discuss ways in which they would have changed the story.
  
• To extend the activity, student groups could exchange stories and rewrite them, adding new creative details.
• Tools to help with scaffolding this assignment might be Rory's Story Cubes or eeBoo's Tell Me a Story cards

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The production of many ideas, the expression of new ideas, and the recombination of existing ideas

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