The SWBAT

Students will be able to:

• identify key ideas or phrases that repeat unnecessarily
• use active verbs rather than passive verbs
• grow familiar with using stronger verbs than forms of "to be"
• start a sentence without saying "it is" or "there are"
• eliminate qualifiers like "very" or "extremely" 
• identify nonessential information
• write a sentence without referring to what they think will be people's thoughts or reactions
• become familiar with words that can take the place of a phrase