Who are you most like? Writing Assignment

Okay, so I have the laptops booked today and I thought I'd try something new. I pulled up a picture of snow white and the seven dwarves (I heard an idea at teacher's convention similar to this) and as a class we talked a bit about each of the dwarves' personalities. Happy is outgoing, friendly and likes to help others. Grumpy alienates others, is not trusting and is generally, well, grumpy, etc. The prompt definitely had an appeal to the kids. The thing about the 7 dwarves is that we all have characteristics from at least a few, so I asked them to choose the one they were most like. Since we had the laptops I had them write out their responses in a word processor. I gave them 20 minutes and gave them the expectation of having at least 200 words when the time was up. They were so focused! And I was definitely impressed with their writing! Some responses I got were "Sleeping in church is not a cool thing to do because all the kids will laugh at you and tease you." and "Being happy makes me happy and others happy, when I smile people will think that I am a gleeful person." Ah! So proud ;)