I have written lessons to accompany Woe Is I, Jr., a grammar handbook for kids. You can read my introductory comments here.
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
1. Read chapter 11 and do what O'Conner suggests.
2. Browse this site which lists clichés in alphabetical order.
3. Be a PCI (Private Cliché Investigator), looking and listening for them in print and conversation. Make a page of at least five clichés you see and/or hear, illustrating each one.
4. Write an advertisement for a product, real or imagined, using clichés until you're blue in the face. (Oh, there's one!)
5. Please consider sharing your advertisement or your best clichés in the comments.
Go to Lesson 12.
Berty Bott’s Every Flavor Beans
ReplyDeleteIn a bag of Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans, there is every flavor imaginable, from chocolate cake to grass flavored beans that will either delight or disgust you. I wish I could beat around the bush, but if you don’t get Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans, then you will be in the doghouse for weeks, if not months. These sweets are that irresistible. When you are bored to tears, pull out a bag of Bertie’s Beans. We can offer a full guarantee that your boredom will go lickety-split. People are grabbing Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans like bulls in a china shop, so come and grab your bag before it’s too late. Remember, they’re called Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans.