Show Vs. Tell

Students were asked to randomly pick a word out of a bucket and then as creatively and with as much detail as possible, describe the word without ever using it or any part of it.  We then guessed the words.


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By: Sam Mitchell

I have an owner

She plays a sport

My best friends are socks

And I’m forced to run around

The court

What am I?

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By: Dante Belandres

I can be heard from far away. My sounds are as beautiful as flowers in the sunset.  I can be played.  Sometimes I need to be tuned.  Sometimes my strings break to wrong tuning.  I’m loud and long.  I have many strings.  I’m happy to be any color and can play any song.

What am I?

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By: Brendan Motley

Tick Tock Tick Tock

Time goes on and on every second, every hour.  I am the most valuable thing to know and have.  I change and have different looks.

Tick Tock Tick Tock

I get the time of day.  My sound is like a heart-beat.  As the time hits twelve, you know very well, I will always be there to let you know.

Tick Tock Tick Tock

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By: Terry Harris

I am actually the thing known for first discovering gravity.  But, I’m just a thing, a thing that can’t talk or walk.  I’m just a delicious treat.  Oh wait . . . here comes someone!  I’ve got an idea!  I’m going to fall on this guy’s head  - Doink . . . Eureka! I just helped discover gravity.

What am I?

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By: Sam Armstrong

I am the life of the beaches.

I can go very swiftly, or I can just float.

I’m taken over and under big, blue, splashes of water and I, myself, can be very colorful.

My master takes very good care of me.

What am I?  

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By: Kenyan Fizer

I’m soft and comfy

Watch out don’t bump me

Cotton or cushiony

My arms sit silly

Relax - chillax

Come on lean back

My back is flat

My legs are the . . . 

Wait slow down

Splat, you’re on your stomache

Chillin

Just bumming

Sleeping with your body

In my arms.

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By: Tamera Lapore

A feat of thought and imagination 

Shining through the windowsill of eyes that see through it

Flip through life

All of it in a hard covering, protecting the creativity waiting to be made

Hiding from eyes unworthy

Silver skinned and lead centered

Lines heading to nowhere

Words unspoken, yet said

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By: Angelo Diaz

It’s delicious and sweet

It sometimes grows on a tree

My sister likes to drink it and my family likes to eat it

It’s my favorite color

My mom likes to grow it

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By: Hailey Kerlin

I am full of junk or joy

I am the passage way of news or blues

I may be slower to receive things than your phone or computer

But, it’s sweeter to find a happy package inside me