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Thursday, April 12, 2018

Due April 18 (SRA re-write)

Have you ever heard the Beatles' Hey Jude lyrics?  The second stanza is, "Take a sad song and make it better."
Well, our assignment asks us to take a rather bland story and make it better. In fact, make it a riveting read!


REQUIREMENTS:
Make it really, really, really interesting!
All dress-ups
All openers except 1, 4, and 7 (optional)
3 DECS
no banned words
no contractions
T/C
Keep dialogue to a bare minimum   (The "quote DEC" refers to a quotation - something that is quoted; a passage quoted from a book, speech, etc.)
Title must directly connect to or elude to clincher

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