Huge Happy Healthy, Hide Home Hollow

Entire post stolen from my anonymous teacher friend:

In humanities class I taught a "craft lesson" on writing good titles for nonfiction reports. The three strategies we discussed were using alliteration, surprising the reader, and using humor. They each had to rewrite a series of "boring" nonfiction titles using one of the new strategies. Then they tried all three strategies out on their own research topic and came up with a new title for their report.

Jorge

Clearly he has a flair for drama...

• The Death Penalty --> The Death Penalty of Innocent People
• Endangered Animals --> Humans Endangered Them
• Owl Eyesight --> Owls: Eyesight of the Future

He thought this was an awesome-sounding titles and refused to recognize that it completely misrepresents the topic...

• How to Get Into College --> How to Get Into Collage Where Their Is Hot Girls

Having a good imagination means that sometimes your grip on reality is a little tenuous...

• Pit Bulls --> Pit Bulls to Weirwolf

Your sense of humor is a little quirky...

• Helpful Owls --> Owls On the Hunt: For Rats
• Helpful Owls --> We Want Owls! When Do We Wanet? Now! Do You Know Why?

And sometimes being funny is more appealing than being kind...

• Hurricanes --> The Hurricane Was Fun to Ride

But ultimately you can rein yourself in and come up with a cool title on your own...

• Helpful Owls --> Owls Do Us A Favor

Elizabeth

A sampling of her "new titles" shows how utterly out to sea she was with this assignment...

• Hurricanes --> Is Bad to Kill People
• How to Get Into College --> By Passing Your Grade

She used a dictionary to help write alliterative alternatives to her current title...

• Where They [owls] Live --> Huge Happy Healthy

• Habitat --> Hide Home Hollow

Her attempt at a funny title is similarly surprising...

• Where They Live --> Don't Read The Black Book

Hmm.


Raquel

Flirting with humor...

• Owl Hunting --> Owls Vomit Rat Hamburgers

But soon back to being poetic...

• Owl Hunting --> The Hunting Night

Kassandra

Adding exclamation marks can mask any creative difficulty!!!!!

• Adaptation --> Adaptations Owls Have!
• Owls --> Owls...They Are Special!

It instantly renders any title surprising!

• Owls Help Us --> Owls Help Us!

What's the point of brainstorming when you've already hit upon the ideal?

• My final title is Adaptations Owls Have!

Juan

He clearly values the element of surprise...

• The Death Penalty --> People That Are Being Killed By The Government
• Hurricanes --> Is Big and Is Coming.

And has a beguiling way of hooking his audience...

• How to Get Into College --> How To Move To A Higher Level

After much searching in the dictionary, two perfectly alliterated but ill-advised titles...

• Owl Habitat --> Hood Habitat
• Owl Habitat --> HipHop Home

Eric C.

Eric's contribution to the nonfiction genre...

• The Death Penalty --> Bad Chocies Ends You Up With A Bulliet On Your Face

(Why Don't We Know Any Wood Owl? photo added by Two Zoos.)