Creative Writing tasks

8 slides full of activities for responding to text . For example:

Imagine that you are a pine tree. Write a first person account of the day that you are cut down and taken to someone’s home to be a Christmas tree.
Write a letter to yourself in the future.
Draw your future ambitions
Fill an entire page in your journal with small circles. Color them in and fill them with new words.
Recall your favorite childhood game
Research a celebration or ritual from another culture. 
Write a list of all the things you do to escape.
Illustrate the concept of “simplicity”.
Find a newspaper article that is an opinion piece – how is this expressed?
Find a newspaper article that is an opinion piece that you disagree with – write your side of the argument.
Create a true/false quiz for an article
Draw your favourite place and describe it.