Click here to access the syllabus for this course
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Dialogue and description practice
Watch one of the following clips WITH NO SOUND. Then narrate at least the first :40 of it. In other words, how would that segment look on a page? What are they saying? What are they doing? Don't worry about getting every single spoken exchange. What I want to know is what your imagination tells you is going on.
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Figurative Language Notes
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Reading Assignments
Click here to access Reading Assignment #1
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Click here to access Reading Assignment #4
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Click here to read some really bad poems
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Get Your Writing PublishedClick here to enter a writing contest for teens--free
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Click here to submit a piece of writing for Narrative's writing contest--open to anyone (not just teens)--costs $23 for an entry
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Poetry
Click here to access an example of a pantoum
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Click here to access directions for copycat poem
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Click here to access directions for/example of a sestina
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short stories
Click here to access a very helpful guide
to writing a short story
to writing a short story
Drama/screenplay
children's stories
Click here to access some tips for writing children's stories