1. Today’s Prompt
Last Person You Talked to: Write a quick little poem or story about the last person you spoke with.

2. Today’s Activity
Today we will be doing Zoe’s activity. It’s about first and last lines. Stay tuned.

3. Paper Towns by John Green
First: “The way I figure it, Everyone gets a miracle.” - Paper Towns by John Green
Last: “Yes, I can see her almost perfectly in the cracked darkness.” – Paper Towns

4. Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone by JK Rowling
First : “Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of number four, Privet Drive were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.”
Last: “I’m going to have a lot of fun with Dudley this summer….”

5. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
First : “I am writing to you because she said you would listen and understand and didn’t try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have.”
Last: “And in this moment I swear we are infinite.”

6. Divergent by Veronica Roth
First: “ There is one mirror in this house.”
Last: “I am no longer Tris, the selfless, or Tris, the Brave. I suppose that now I must become more than either.”

7. Looking for Alaska by John Green
First: “ The week before I left my family and Flordia and the rest of my minor life to go to boarding school in Alabama, my mother insisted on throwing me a going away party.”
Last: “ Thomas Edison’s last words were: “its very beautiful over there.” I don’t know where there is but I believe its somewhere, and I hope its beautiful”

8. Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
First: “Roy would not have noticed the stranded boy if it weren’t for Dana Matherson, because Roy ordinarily didn’t look out the window of the school bus.”
Last: “ That’s what a real Flordia boy would do.”

9. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
First: “ When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.”
Last: “He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.”

10. First Line/ Last Line Activity
Choose a first and a last line from the bag. Use them to frame your story, poem or essay.