Creative Freewriting Adventure

Home SchoolAdventure Co. offers a unique, philosophy based writing curriculum. In this resource review, I will share details about the Creative Freewriting Adventure. You may use Creative Freewriting Adventure as a stand-alone resource or to complement their Philosophy Adventure curriculum.

Freewriting is when you let a student write about a prompt without having to think about sentence structure, spelling, or punctuation. Creative FreewritingAdventure is a collection of thought provoking freewriting exercises designed to inspire creativity and critical thinking, even in reluctant writers. The topics in this course include:

Exercise 1 – Thales

Exercise 2 – Pythagoras

Exercise 3 – Xenophanes

Exercise 4 – Democritus

Exercise 5 – The Wise Woman

Exercise 6 – Beasts

Exercise 7 – The Gallery

Exercise 8 – Winged Pony

Exercise 9 – Eternity

Exercise 10 – The Ultimate Christmas Party

Each of the ten writing exercises begin with a few short paragraphs for the student to read, followed by a writing prompt. These writing prompts are pretty short and open-ended. The actual assignment includes bullet points that should be included in the writing. These bullet points are guided questions about the background, the dialogue, and incorporating your senses into your writing. You are supposed to set a timer for 15 minutes and write! Space is provided on the page, but there are no lines. I had my girls write on a piece of notebook paper. You may also use the Creative Freewriting Adventure - Coloring Book Edition.

My girls have not completed all of the exercises because we do not agree with some of the philosophy; but they did have fun with a couple exercises. Even my daughter, who is a reluctant writer, laughed and had fun writing a response to Thales. You will have to purchase the curriculum for the writing prompt; but here is her response…

I run up to the well, when I got there he was under the water. You could barely see him. I lean over, stretched out my hand, he grabbed it, I was trying to pull him up, but all of a sudden a man ran up. He helped me get the other man out of the well. I asked the soaking wet man “Are you okay?” He said “Yes, I’m fine, thank you.” I thanked the other man and he left. I asked the man “Who are you?” He said his name was Thales. I asked Thales “What in the world were you doing?” He simply said he was looking at the stars. He asks me “What were you doing?” I say, “I was going to get water, but I don’t know I want water out of that well now.” Thales looked ashamed and said he was sorry. I just turn around to leave when he said, “If you would like you could get water at my house.” I turned around and said “No thank you.” And I walked back home thinking this is too strange of a night.

Enjoy your writing adventures with Creative Freewriting Adventure!

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