Harris Burdick Under The Rug Picture

He returned with a dust covered cardboard box.

Harris burdick under the rug picture.

Each image is accompanied by a title and a single line of text which encourage readers to create their own stories. The mysteries of harris burdick assignment 1. I used the portfolio so that get students could select one of the pictures to have at their desk while they were writing. Write a three paragraph story about this picture.

Title picture and caption. Jed came in with a chair and smashed it on the bump under the rug. Two weeks passed and it happened again. His briefcase lay open at his feet papers spewing from it covering the carpet sofa and coffee table.

Just felt like posting this. I didn t know grandpa had a gun but i found out when he pulled a loaded revolver from his pocket and peeked under the rug. Or he was supposed to be. Here little kitty little kit argh he fell back like me and i saw blood gushing from his face.

The first paragraph should tell about the man in the picture and what happened before this scene. The stories range from scary funny to happy somewhere in the middle or everything in one story. Under the rug under the rug. This was a creative writing assignment i did a while ago.

You start to play it. Harris burdick stories are short fictional stories the author makes up based on only three things. These fourteen drawings so the story goes were brought to a children s book publisher by a man named harris burdick along. The mysteries of harris burdick is a 1984 picture book by the american author chris van allsburg.

I began using the book about 20 years ago in my high school classroom as a prompt for writing a story. Two weeks passed and it happened again. Inside were dozens of stories all inspired by the burdick drawings. When i told peter wenders how difficult it was to look at the drawings and their captions without imagining a story he smiled and left the room.

It s my own take on the picture titled under the rug by harris burdick from the book the mysteries of harris burdick the first sentence was given with the picture. It wimped but ran out from under the rug. It consists of a series of images ostensibly created by harris burdick a man who has mysteriously disappeared. This portfolio is a perfect accompaniment to the book the mysteries of harris burdick.

Burdick had written a title and caption for each picture.