Archive for September 30, 2008

Show, Don’t Tell

First period worked on improving their diction. The first time we did this, we worked on specific nouns; this time we worked on including action verbs.
Second period looked at three questions:

What is Calpurnia’s purpose in the novel? In order to answer that question, you need to think about the attitudes the townspeople of Maycomb express [...]

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