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Idioms have multiple meanings.

Literal or figurative, which way are your leaning?

Idioms have multiple meanings.

Literal or figurative, which way are your leaning?

 

Grab the bull by the horns, put your foot down

Put your foot down, put your foot down

Grab the bull by the horns, put your foot down

Put your foot down, put your foot down

 

Keep your chin up, now bend over backwards

Keep your chin up, now bend over backwards

Keep your chin up, now bend over backwards

Keep your chin up, now bend over backwards

 

You got ants in your pants, shake a leg

If you got ants in your pants, shake a leg

If you got ants in your pants, shake a leg

If you got ants in your pants, shake a leg

 

Idioms have multiple meanings. (Keep your fingers crossed)

Literal or figurative, which way are your leaning?

Idioms have multiple meanings. (Now get this monkey off my back)

Literal or figurative, which way are your leaning?

 

You gotta make waves, make waves, 

make waves, make waves

And roll with the punches, roll with the punches,

roll with the punches, roll with the punches

 

Rock the boat if you’re in a pickle

Rock the boat if you’re in a pickle

March to the beat of a different drummer

Just march to the beat of a different drummer

 

Keep a straight face now, no monkey business,

no monkey business, no monkey business

Keep a straight face now, no monkey business,

no monkey business, no monkey business

 

Literal, what does it say?

Figurative, what does it convey?

Remember with literal, what does it say?

Figurative, what does it convey?

 

Idioms have multiple meanings.

Literal or figurative, which way are your leaning?

Idioms have multiple meanings.

Literal or figurative, which way are your leaning?

Get this monkey off my back!

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This is the heart of my story. What can I do to stretch it out?

To let the reader know just how important that this moment is, invite them in to look around?

Just like a video in slo mo. Take time to let it all unfold.

Linger on important descriptions. What was I thinking and feeling? Are my explanations bold?

  

We should slow down

Write the story like we were in slo mo 

We should slow down

Write the story like we were in slo mo 

We should slow down

Write the story like we were in slo mo/ On my cellphone

We should slow down

Write the story like we were in slo mo 

  

This is the heart of my story. What can I do to stretch it out?

To let the reader know just how important that this moment is, invite them in to look around?

Chronicle sensory descriptions, illuminate what is untold

Use figurative language, simile, hyperbole, and metaphor

This moment will explode.   

 

We should slow down

Write the story like we were in slo mo 

We should slow down

Write the story like we were in slo mo 

We should slow down

Write the story like we were in slo mo/ On my cellphone

We should slow down

Write the story like we were in slo mo 

  

We should slow down

We’re in slo mo now

So write it down

We should slow down

We’re in slo mo now

So write it down

We should slow down

We’re in slo mo now

So write it down

We should slow down

We’re in slo mo now

So write it down (Like we were in sloooo moooo)

 

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WORDS PAINT A PICTURE

My best friend Numbat came to me wanting to share about his summer.

 

We had been on vacation many weeks and I knew he’d have stories to tell me… about who he’d met, what he’d seen… when he went to where he had gone… why he left… how he traveled each way.

 

When I asked him, “So what did you do over break?” He replied, “I just hung out at home.”

 

Could you please elaborate?

Who, What, Where, Why, When, How?

You’ve got to explain a little more…

Close your eyes and recount!

Paint me a picture with your words.

Words paint a picture.

 

He stopped to think and squint his eyes, and then he opened them wide and smiled. He said, “My brother, mom and dad and I got to see a real crocodile!”

It turned out he had boarded a plane and flew down to Miami Florida to visit his uncle and his aunt that he hadn’t seen in something like seven years!

Then he said, “Oh yeah, and we went to a zoo…”

 

Could you please elaborate?

Who, What, Where, Why, When, How?

You’ve got to explain a little more…

Close your eyes and recount!

Paint me a picture with your words.

Words paint a picture.

 

“So I went to Zoo Miami. It was so cool. We saw elephants, crocodiles, otters, baboons… believe or not, I stood three feet away from two very large hippos who started to play… their bodies were massive, their jaws like shovels. We saw black rhinos, electric eels, and a toad. We saw flamingos, koalas, tigers (my favorites!)… um… I guess that’s pretty much it.”

 

Could you please elaborate?

Who, What, Where, Why, When, How?

You’ve got to explain a little more…

Close your eyes and recount!

Paint me a picture with your words.

Words paint a picture.

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Invite me into your world.

Set the scene, use your words, 

describe the senses. 

 

All stories take place 

in a setting. 

Close your eyes, 

what do you see? 

Imagine your story’s

first scene.

Describe this world with 

all five senses. 

What will I feel, hear, 

see, and smell? 

What will I taste? 

Give me details.

 

Sometimes it helps to draw 

a sketch of what you see. 

Put your pencil to the page, 

let your imagination free.

 

Now that you’ve captured 

what you see inside your head, 

use your words to paint 

a picture and let me in. 

 

CHORUS

 

The next thing you can do is 

decide on a character… or two?

Maybe three, or four, or five?  

You get to bring them all to life!

Describe them with some traits. 

What are they like? Can you relate?

Are they kind hearted, or intense? 

Are they optimistic, or depressed?

 

A physical trait describes how 

a character appears. 

Are they tall, short, female, 

blue eyes… do they have a beard?

A character trait explains 

about what they are like. 

Are they bold, crazy, bitter, 

frustrated, or nice? 

What motivates them..?

 

CHORUS

 

Who will I meet? What traits 

describe your characters?

What motivations do they have? 

What do they perceive 

as right or wrong?

 

Motivation means: “What drives 

to want and do the things

we do and why?” What forms of 

passion and desire lay inside?

To see a point of view, to walk 

in your character’s shoes,

 you’ve gotta write so we can feel 

like the world you’ve made is real.

 

CHORUS

 

Who will I meet? What traits 

describe your characters?

What motivations do they have? 

What do they perceive as 

right or wrong?

What motivations do they have? 

What do they perceive as 

right or wrong?

What motivations do they have? 

What do they perceive as 

right or wrong?

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Take a mental a picture, 

but not just of what you see.

Remember what you taste and hear, 

the scents and your feelings.

 

Put them all together 

to describe a flash in time. 

Use all five of your senses 

when you brainstorm to write. 

 

Life is full of small moments. 

We must stop to take notice.

Use all of your senses for 

an experience preferred. 

We can describe them, 

but we’ve got to choose our words. 

Choose your words. 

Choose your words.

 

   Lets wake up these senses…

Early on a Sunday, I woke up to write. 

My eyes were tired and my back was stiff, 

so I stretched, and walked outside. 

 

The sweet smell of begonias, 

the taste of nectarines, 

I pulled one off my tree, 

and I felt the grass beneath my feet. 

 

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“The Sun had poked his head out.” 

I wrote on my first line, 

a personification’s 

a non-living thing alive. 

 

I heard the wind-a-whistle 

like a train-a-rollin’ by.  That’s a simile. 

This moment’s where I long to be, 

thank my senses I’m alive.

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