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through your choice of moments in this character sketch. However, you don’t need to make your mother a zombie in your book if you don’t want to. Many great stories are reflections of the person in their prime and don’t need to be completely true to life.
    Ms. Whitehead
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    January 8th
    Dear RJ,
    Drama class started this week, and Kennedy is in it too! It’s nice to be in a class with her where we don’t have to sit at desks, and we can sit wherever we want. I will always sit beside Kennedy and show her how charming I am in real life every day. It might even be okay that Robbie is in the class too, except that he’s always talking to Kennedy. They have this thing from when they played baseball together. It’s this weird high five thing they do all the time and it’s really dumb. We also have to sing in class, which I think is stupid because it’s a drama class, not a choir, but Mr. Tan said that a good actor is a “triple threat” if he can act, sing, and dance. I would like to triple threat Robbie out of the class, but not with acting, singing, and dancing. More like kickboxing, karate, and ninja moves.
    I’ve been writing too. I started a dumb story in Ms. Whitehead’s class about zombie cats, but it’s definitely not going to be famous. I tried to base it on Pickles, but she’s not a zombie; she’s just kind of possessed. My story for the contest will make readers laugh and cry and realize how smart I am. I’m going to write something really deep. I think it needs to have lots of description. Ms. Whitehead is big on description.
    The computer sat alone on the table, in a faded gray room. The chair was brown, cracked leather digging into anyone who sat on it. The sun shone yellow through the dirty windowpanes. There was nothing more to say…
    Yours truly,
    Arthur Bean
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    Assignment: Interview a Friend
    As we heard in our author talk today, some authors sit down and think about interviewing their characters to help develop back stories and other quirks that can turn a flat character into a well-rounded one. To practice this technique, I would like you to interview someone in your life. Come up with five questions that you feel will provide you with an accurate portrait of this person’s likes and dislikes, and provide some insight into their outlook on life. In your assignment, please provide both the questions you posed and the answers from your interviewee.
    Due: January 14
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    Peer Tutoring Program—Progress Report
    Session: January 11th
    Worked On: Interviews
    Artie was really rude today, and I even tried to be nice to the looser. He refused to help me fix my interveiw with Kennedy to make it a better assignment. I dont know how you think this tutoring is good for ether of us can we change now? Hes in my drama class now to and hes as annoying there as every where else.
    â€”Robbie
    Ms. Whitehead: I would like an extension on this assignment. I was going to interview Kennedy Laurel, but Robbie already interviewed her. My interview was going to be much more in-depth, but I don’t want you to think that I stole his idea. If anything, I think he stole mine, because I was talking to Kennedy in drama class and it was pretty clear that I was going to ask her to be my person to interview. Now I have to think of a new person to interview, and I don’t know if I will have time to do that by Friday.
    â€”Arthur
    Arthur,
    I will give you time to interview Robbie during class on Thursday, which should give you enough time to hand in your interview for Monday morning.
    Ms. Whitehead
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    From: Kennedy Laurel ([email protected])
    To: Arthur Bean ([email protected])
    Sent: January 15, 15:20
    Hi, Arthur!
    How much fun is drama class!?! Mr. Tan was saying that there are going to be auditions for Romeo and Juliet soon! How awesome will that be?! I’ll