Wednesday, November 2nd (Early Dismissal)

Welcome to Creative Writing!

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Writing Lesson

1.        Clichés--page 8—what are they?  Why are they bad for our writing?

2.        Create anti-clichés (p. 8).  (Ten Minutes)

3.        Trade three times for smileys.

o   Read your partner’s ten anti-clichés.

o   Put a smiley and your initials by the TWO you feel are strongest.

4.     Everyone share his/her best anti-cliché.

5.     Take the pledge to avoid clichés in your writing.

6.     Check out pages 9-10. 

·       Put a question mark by clichés you don’t understand,

·       Put a smiley by ones you like (even though they’re cliché).

·       Put a check-mark by the ones you’ve heard gazillions of times.

·       Pair-share your responses.

·       I’ll explain any that are still unclear.

AP English

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