Daily, genre-inspired writing prompts for authors, teachers, and journaling

Primary – October 17

“Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.”

Jupiter Hammon, the first published African-American writer in the United States, who was born into slavery on this date in 1711.

Describe the most important difference between someone who can’t read and someone who can.

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