Writing Prompt

'Today, class, I'm going to give you a very different sort of assignment,' Miss Winifred said with a smile.

Nigella raised her head from where it'd spent the last hour pillowed on her arms. And she leaned forwards in her seat, ignoring the press of her desk against her ribs.

'What kind of assignment, miss?' Lilly, a blonde girl with huge doe-eyes asked. Nigella's eyes bored into the back of th...

Alya Nikai twirled her pen around between her fingers, not bothering to watch her hand as she listened to the eager discussion between the trio sat in front of her. They seemed to be having fun, even though she wasn’t entirely sure what they were talking about.

Where was the teacher? They should have been here almost ten minutes ago… were they alright?

She bit back a sigh, trying to avoid any si...

Another horrible date. Hi, I’m June and I just got back from yet another horrible date. Every guy I meet is bad, some are cheating on their partners, others are cat fishers. Sometimes I feel like love is just some big joke. Anyway, tomorrow I’ve got class. I go to UCR. I major in writing and minor in botany so I spend most of my time writing in my journal in the gardens. A few days ago at class th...

Our civics teacher also led interesting classes. Today was no different.

“Today, class, I’m going to give you a very different sort of assignment,” Mr Lloyd announced

After a lecture on the constitution of the US. “We’re going to protest the unconstitutional acts of the government.”

I was completely floored. I would guess that our teacher must have some grievances of his own to encourage, or rath...

SEPTEMBER 26,2021

PROMPT: teacher gives class a different type of assignment

LEARN TO LIVE WITH A CONSTANT IN CHANGE.

“class, today we have a little something different planned“ Mrs. Marvel said as we walked into the room. I could see that our papers weren’t on our desks for us to do or do you know today, I could also see that we had no pencils and nothing was wiped down, hence there was real...

Cracks of gunfire barged through the hollow halls of Charnock Hall Primary School. My class of 9-10 year olds varied from a state of stationary shock to an irate panic. The bangs & screams were seemingly closing in on our classroom, where we laid our bed with no hope of escape. The door was locked from the inside whereas the fire exit had been blocked from the outside - whoever was doing this want...

Becca concentrated on her breathing, in through her nose, then a long controlled exhale. She hugged the wall as she speed-walked the hallway. Her sea foam green eyes were cast down, giving her a view of her once-white Chuck Taylors. She had thrown a shapeless dress over her slight frame that morning, pushing aside her disappointment as she faced her reflection in the mirror. She would never fi...

“Today, class, I’m going to give you a very different sort of assignment.”

This is Mr. Fuller, my middle school science teacher, he has alopecia, amongst other issues, though those seem to be existential in nature. If I knew the word at the time, I would have said he was neurotic, but because I was a 7th grade grade-A asshat at the time, I probably thought neurosis was when you wanted to romance ...

The classes dispersed after the bell rang. Sally thought, school is sooo boring, why can’t we do more real life learning instead of computer worksheets or book work. She arrived at biology and sat down at her desk.

“Today,class, I’m going to give you a very different sort of assignment,” said Mrs. Templeton while walking across the front of the room.

Ooh….thought Sally this could be exciting! Sh...

I’d signed up for this ridiculous class on a whim. It was all due to my roommate, Mary.

“Let’s sign up for this!” She had turned to some page in the course catalog and was thrusting it in my face. “It’s called Living With Indecision. It says it will be a process of learning how to make good decisions or not. It should be an easy ‘A’ and counts toward a required Psych course.”

“You have got...