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Free-Writing Exercise

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Use the suggested question "What does it mean to be a citizen?" to prompt your writers. After they free-write for five minutes, have them trade papers with another classmate. For the next five minutes, class members respond to the new piece of writing in front of them. 

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7th - 12th
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English Language Arts
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