Day 74 (B)-Friday’s Intro to the Mid-Term

Creative Writing 1

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    • Add the Following 16 Words to Your Inspiration Dictionary, REMEMBER-Each word needs Synonyms & Antonyms!! 
      1. lobbyist — (n) person who seeks to influence political events
      2. longevity — (n) long life
      3. mundane — (adj) ordinary, commonplace
      4. nonchalant — (adj) calm, casual, seeming unexcited
      5. novice — (n) apprentice, beginner
      6. opulent — (adj) wealthy
      7. orator — (n) lecturer, speaker
      8. ostentatious — (adj) showy, displaying wealth
      9. parched — (adj) dried up, shriveled
      10. perfidious — (adj) faithless, disloyal, untrustworthy
      11. precocious — (adj) unusually advanced or talented at an early age
      12. pretentious — (adj) pretending to be important, intelligent or cultured
      13. procrastinate — (v) to unnecessarily delay, postpone, put off
      14. prosaic — (adj) relating to prose; dull, commonplace
      15. prosperity — (n) wealth or success
      16. provocative — (adj) tending to provoke a response, e.g., anger or disagreement
    • Grouping Up For Mid-Term Project
      • Taking excerpts from The Once & Future King -the legend of King Arthur and his preparations to become the King of England
      • Groups will create 1 of the following options:
        • Extended Story Board-Similar to the Fables Project
        • Creation of a Children’s Book-Preparation for creating their own book in Q3
      • Viewed the Beginning of “The Sword & the Stone” to get the feel of the lessons created for Arthur by Merlin, his tutor
        • 1963 Theatrical Trailer:
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    • Late Presentations
  • Homework

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