Leadership Journeyman Week 4

 This week we will be learning all about:

Words matter! We don't want to sound like a 4th grader if we're writing a college application essay and we don't want to sound unprofessional if we're putting a cover letter on a resume. If you love creative writing then this assignment will also help you improve your writing skills and avoid cliches, colloquialisms and banal expressions. 

Remember, all of these journeyman class skills are building on each other to help us craft an effective, interesting and well-written article to submit to the magazine for the youth. This particular assignment will heighten your awareness of the boring words and phrases we often use without being conscious of them and how we can replace them to make our writing more interesting.

For this assignment I want you to go through each of the three following slides. As you go through the slides you will notice that some of them prompt you to take action. One slide will ask you to identify the cliche/colloquialism/etc in the sentence. You can do this in your head -- don't skip to the next slide until you think you've identified the part of the sentence you want to get rid of. The next slide will correctly identify the word. Finally, a slide will ask you to reword the sentence: DO THIS in your commonplace book. Rewrite the sentence replacing the common words/phrases with better vocabulary choices.

What if you can't think of a better word choice? Ask an adult, consult a thesaurus or a dictionary. Ask google! The point of this assignment isn't to see what vocabulary words you already know (though this assignment will be easy if you have a large or mature vocabulary), this assignment is to help you identify poor or boring word choices or phrases and to learn how to replace them. 

By the time you are done you should have 11 rewritten sentences or passages written out in your commonplace book. 

Slide Links: 

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11ZEwO3iw8xGRCgiYM3WbK0IP-ttCTXpN/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106036051217046911036&rtpof=true&sd=true

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Bneq9ZJah3HKWFW7WIiJq07SunAXuzMk/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106036051217046911036&rtpof=true&sd=true

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vNradNANHsK3WVIcyeOwYAvjSrZAIFJi/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106036051217046911036&rtpof=true&sd=true

We'll be doing fun word choice games and activities in class! I hope to see you there :)