1. Travel Abroad
If you could spend a semester abroad, where would you go and what would you do?
2. Hemingway Response
Read Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast. What did you learn about Paris? How did it differ from America culturally, geographically and economically?
3. America Road Trip
Plan a road trip across the United States that can only take two weeks. Where would you go, what landmarks would you visit, who would you take and what would you hope to learn?
4. Travel Creative Prompt
Write a story from the perspective of a character that is always on the road (singer, politician, motivational speaker, comedian, etc.) Try to capture the feeling of constant travel.
5. Foreigner Scene
Write a scene between two people who meet in a foreign country but don't speak the same language.
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