WRITING ASSIGNMENT FOR: ______________________________________
TITLE: THE POWER OF WORDS
DIRECTIONS: Write about a time when YOU found out what words can do (help or hurt).
The words might have been directed at you to hurt or help you. Or YOU might have
used words to, for example:
provide an apology, or provide an explanation, or entertain others, or get help, or get back at
someone, or solve a problem, or get what you wanted, etc…
Make clear why the experience was important to you (do so at the beginning or end of
your story)
Have MORE THAN ONE DOUBLESPACED PAGE.
Follow manuscript form (look on back of your blue Editors’ Marks paper).
WRITING ASSIGNMENT FOR: ______________________________________
TITLE: THE POWER OF WORDS
DIRECTIONS: Write about a time when YOU found out what words can do (help or hurt).
The words might have been directed at you to hurt or help you. Or YOU might have
used words to, for example:
provide an apology, or provide an explanation, or entertain others, or get help, or get back at
someone, or solve a problem, or get what you wanted, etc…
Make clear why the experience was important to you (do so at the beginning or end of
your story)
Have MORE THAN ONE DOUBLESPACED PAGE.
Follow manuscript form (look on back of your blue Editors’ Marks paper)