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>> Good day, good day,
good day, how are you,

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how are you, how are you?

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I'm good, I'm good, I'm
good, and I hope you are too.

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This is Jason Reynolds and
welcome back to another episode

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of the Write Right Rite,
where we stretch ourselves

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and our imagination
and create new ways

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to express ourselves
however we want to, right?

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That's what this
whole thing is about,

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I hope you all have been
good, been writing with me

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for a while now, so we
should all be loosened up,

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we know what we're
doing, flexing our muscles

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when it comes to this thing

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and expressing ourselves
however we choose.

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Here's what I've
been thinking about,

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I love newspaper headlines,
not because they're good

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because they almost
never are, right?

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It's like you know, three
injured in a car crash, right?

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Or, you know, big
storm hits DC, right?

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Whatever it is.

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I don't really like what
they're talking about but I do

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like the way that
they're written

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in this really interesting,
only a few words to tell this,

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to sort of prep this
whole story.

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I really like that, right?

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Michael Jordan wins sixth
championship, right?

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It's like these just boop
boop boop boop boop, right?

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Couple of words.

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Super cool.

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Here's what I want you to do;

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I want you to write a
headline about your day.

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Which means that you can't,
it can't be too many words,

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just you know, like right now
you all aren't in class anymore

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for the summertime,
but if you were still

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in school it would be, teacher
asks student to write story.

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Right? That's it.

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And I think it's super cool.

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Or maybe for me it'd be
like; man sits alone in front

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of yellow wall, right?

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For hours.

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Or, man stares at computer
with no words, right?

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Man can't think of
anything to write, you know.

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Whatever, think of just
something super cool,

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just using six words
max so that's the limit,

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six words to talk about
your day or even six words

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to talk about your life.

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If you could sum up your
life in a six word headline

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in the newspaper,
what would it be?

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Or your day, or your week,
or your family, right?

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And it will be super cool and
what it'll teach you is just how

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to use the words that matter,
only the words that count,

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which is the basis of poetry

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and honestly the basis
of any good writer.

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Just the words that
matter, alright?

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Good luck with that one,
I hope it goes well,

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it'll be a little challenging
maybe but it'll be fun.

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I'll talk to you
all soon, you know,

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so if you need a newspaper,

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your uncle read the
newspaper every single day,

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tell him to let you
borrow it, alright?

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Peace.