Show+-+Don't+Tell

Show – Don’t Tell

Directions: Select one of the topics from below and develop a showing essay of at least one typed page in length. Use description and imagery in your writing. Remember to double-space your essay. Use proper page headings that are single-spaced and set up at the top of your page as shown:

Creative Writing…………………………………………………..Your Name Show Essay………………………………………………………….Period# Topic #...........................................................................................Date

1. Past – Professor Tempus Fugit has just built the first successful time machine. The machine is not totally perfected yet; however, it does have the capacity at this stage of completion to take the rider back in time to up to two-thousand years. The professor has already tried out the apparatus to ensure its safety. He is so excited about his accomplishment that he invites you to try out his machine. Write an essay describing your trip in the professor’s machine. What time period did you travel back to and what did you experience while you were there!

2. Present - Robert Ballard, the oceanographer who discovered the final resting place of the Titanic, invites you aboard his exploratory submarine to visit any place on the ocean bottom that you would like to see. What or where would you choose to visit? Describe your journey to the bottom of the ocean, what you saw and experienced while there.

3. Future - You are home alone, when suddenly the strangest storm you have ever seen emerges from a once peaceful sky. The clouds are black, angry, and billowing. Lightning rains down with terrible ferocity. Suddenly, in your own living room the atmosphere becomes wavy, like it often appears on a scalding summer day. One of the waves tears apart and you step through a curtain of time into the future. Where do you go and what is life like there in the future? Describe in detail all that you see, hear, feel, smell, and taste.