On this date in 1884, Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was first published. Defend your position on whether it is right or wrong to help someone who is breaking an unjust law.
Describe what you would do if you could learn to play any musical instrument.
Choose an historical figure you have learned about whom you would most like to be for a day, and explain what you would do on a day you pick from that person’s life.
If you could be invisible for only one day, what would you do on that day?
Sonny Bono was born on this date in 1935. Make the case that celebrity is a qualification or disqualification for public office.
How would you try to persuade a friend who doesn’t like to read to read your favorite book?
Italian astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei, born on this date in 1564, once wrote, “I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.” Explain what you think Galileo meant and defend your disagreement or agreement.
Polar explorer Ernest Shackleton was born on this date in 1874. He believed, “Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.” What do you think he meant when he said that?