The Alphabet

Is really hard to write sentences in the order of.

My next chosen assignment was "To spark new and unusual ideas, have students work alone or in small groups to write a sentence where each subsequent word begins with the next letter of the alphabet" 


I don't think it sparked much other than frustration. In the end, I split my sentence into several absolutely nonsensical sentences, creating a paragraph with little to no connection from one sentence to the next. 


"A balloon called Derek endeavors for great help in jolly kooky laments. Moreover, no one pardoned quaggas randomly searching trees under vacuums. Witty xylem yodels zealously."


However, it is a great expander of knowledge and vocabulary. For example, I learned there is an extinct type of zebra that they are bringing back to life in South Africa through genetic things, called a quagga. How this relates to creative writing? The word is a noun that starts with 'q', a relatively rare thing. And it's really cool, so I just had to use it in my paragraph. They look like this: 

I love quaggas. 


And now that I am finished with my off-topic, I will show an example of an alphabet song. This is about how to pronounce the letters, just in case you don't know. A catchy song, too. Although I don't recommend watching it past about the first minute, because it just repeats itself.