Writing Lesson Plan: Stranger than Fiction!

It's good to get inspiration from your reading - but sometimes the most ordinary things in real life can throw you an exciting curved ball. Go with it!

Five minutes free writing on the topic. No readback.

Exercise 1 - 20 minutes

Prompt

Write about meeting a stranger who looks eerily familiar.

 Readback and discuss

Exercise 2 - longer exercise

Prompt - choose one of the following options:

1 Describe a chance encounter that brings together two old friends who have

changed in surprising or strange ways.

2 Write a story that includes the line “Have we met before?”

3 Two strangers discover they have a hidden connection that alters their

understanding of each other.

Readback and discuss