Write a mystery / detective story around the following situation:

A spinster is murdered leaving all her wealth to her neighbour who immediately becomes a suspect. You, as the neighbor’s best friend set out to solve the mystery of the murder and absolve your friend of the crime.

Remember that the story is for children so the language and the values that the story endorses should suit their age.

My happiest day

Waking up to something absurd

Trapped in an elevator

Write a short story beginning with the following sentences: (You can fill in the blanks for the name, gender, town and age) My name is ……………….and I am a ……………….living in ………………. I’m ……………….years old and am married/not married. Yesterday I killed someone and I haven’t been able to……………….

Continue the following story and take it to a logical conclusion:

She could hear water running in the kitchen when she unlocked the front door and entered her house. This seemed surprising since she lived alone and there couldn’t possibly be anyone else in the house. She ran towards the kitchen and pushed open the door – and in that instant she realized that she should have run out of the house instead of into it…

Balancing a career and family

Be the change you want to see

Imagine that you are interviewing a person who has survived a terrible disease. List out ten questions and their possible answers which would bring out the fact that a positive mindset helps to combat illnesses.

You have just returned from a vacation to a foreign land, whose language, culture and cuisine were completely unfamiliar to you. Describe your experiences there in such a way that others would want to/not want to travel there.

While reviewing a book you need to include its subject, strengths, weaknesses and context along with your personal opinion. Write a review of a book that you have read recently, which you would recommend/not recommend to others.

Traditionally women have been expected to handle all domestic chores. Do you think this is changing in the present scenario? Write a feature on how we can change this mindset and usher in gender neutrality in the work-place as well as home?

Read the following story and answer the questions that follow:

Two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the sand:

“Today my best friend slapped me in the face.” They kept on walking until they found an oasis, where they decided to take a bath. The one who had been slapped got stuck in the mire and started drowning, but the friend saved him. After he recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone:

“Today my best friend saved my life.” The friend who had slapped and then saved his best friend asked him, “After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now, you write on a stone, why?”

The other friend replied, “When someone hurts us we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it.”

i) Rewrite portions of the story where you think more descriptions would make it more interesting. 

ii) Write a moral for the story

Why should writers review and edit their own work?

Write a dialogue between two students discussing ways and means to get ahead in life. While one feels that it is important to be honest and ethical, the other laughs at him for his “outdated” views

You had an argument with your sister over a trivial matter and she left home in a huff. Later you hear that she has been in an accident. Write two opening paragraphs of a story based on this and also provide two possible endings for the story.

Using the autobiographical mode, write a brief account of a young man working abroad in order to improve his family’s financial condition.

Write a character-sketch in the diary-writing mode.

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