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Creative-Writing for 5th to 12th class students ( it also in your syllabus )

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Creative-Writing THE teacher  was explaining the lines in the beginning of Shakespeare's play Macbeth.  It was a description of the battle and the lines were.  Like  Valour's minion, carved out his paasage, Till he faced the slave : With ne'er shook hands, nor baded farewell to him. The  he unseamn'd him from the nave to the chaps,.... The teacher  asked the students what the word 'unseamed' meant. It was difficult. The teacher prodded them on. "What does "seam' mean? Haven't you ever come across the word?" One of the students blurted out "Cricket ball"  This is an example  of   how each  of  us  reacts to words  according to what our own experience bas been.  When  we write about factual information, all of us write almost similarly. But we. write for pleasure each of us may write about the same event in diferent ways.  One very important element in creative writing is imagination. This is ...