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  • Programs
    • Top Reasons to use Books by JL Panagopoulos in your Classroom
  • Research
    • Historical Research
    • Thought Research
    • Know your Sources
    • Primary Source Links
    • Citing Online Resources
    • Great Lake Research Links
    • Great Lakes Chronology
    • Google Earth Files
    • DIY Google Earth
    • Videos
    • Lumbering Background and Links
  • Writing Fun!
    • Simple Steps to Writing a Story
    • Train to Midnight Rap
    • Writing Tip
    • Grandma's Grammar
    • Students Writing: Write a Story!
    • Editing
    • Be a Wordsmith and Collect Words
    • 7 Words of Communication
    • Our Favorite Things!
    • Graphic Organizer: Create You Own!
    • The History of Language
    • Write a Haiku
    • Collect
    • Ebooks by JL Panagopoulos
  • Janie Lynn Panagpoulos
    • NEWS
    • J. L. Panagopoulos Bio
    • From the Writer's Desk Blog
    • Contact
    • Interview With J.L. Panagopoulos
  • River Road Publication
    • Traders in Time: A Dream-Quest Adventure
    • Journey Back to Lumberjack Camp
    • Erie Trail West
    • North to Iron Country
    • Train to Midnight
    • Little Ship Under Full Sail: An Adventure in History
    • Mark of the Bear Claw
    • A Faraway Home: An Orphan Train Story
    • A Place Called Home: Michigan's Mill Creek Story
    • Castle at the Straits: History of the Inhabitants of the Straits of Mackinac
    • Calling the Griffin
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  When we are at school or sitting at a restaurant, we often overhear words or conversations that attract our interest.  For most people, this is considered eavesdropping rude, but for writers, this is considered part of our education to learn how other people speak, communicate, and argue.  
  For this assignment keep your Writer’s Notebook with you and start collecting sentences and words you overhear, some will be funny, some interesting, some even scary.  Also, collect odd little things that people do before or while they are speaking (these are called mannerisms) and are also part of communicating. 
  Perhaps your aunt always smiles when she talks; perhaps your teacher blinks a lot when she gets excited, perhaps the librarian hums songs to herself when she stacks books, perhaps your father licks his lips before he is going to say something that is angry.  All these little mannerisms help you understand or realize the words that will follow.
  Watch, listen and collect.  Then, when you want to write a story or a poem, go to you Writer’s Notebook and select the perfect words and mannerisms for your characters. 

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