The Write Channel; No. 2

<v Announcer>R. B. Bugg, writer and television reporter, <v Announcer>a bug with a nose for news. <v Announcer>WORD news director Red Green, a busy woman. <v Red Green>Put who here and cover this story. <v Announcer>But never too busy to help a young bug. <v Bugg>Right Red. <v Announcer>Channel 85 WORD-TV. <v Announcer>The write channel. Go! [music plays] <v News Reporter>Cooks are being rotated every six hours.

<v Bugg>Red, listen! <v News Reporter>And that's the latest from Egg City's annual pizza eating contest. <v News Reporter>This is Hillary Fletch for WBAD. <v News Reporter>First with the news and first in your hearts. <v Red Green>[phone rings] Hold my calls. <v Red Green>WBAD has scooped us again <v Red Green>unless you-. <v Bugg>Got the story? <v Red Green>Janet Brower won the contest. <v Red Green>It was a pizza eating contest. <v Red Green>She ate 40 pizzas. <v Red Green>The pizzas were big. The pizzas were mushroom. <v Red Green>You've got the facts. <v Red Green>I like the way you described everything. <v Red Green>You wrote what kind of contest Janet won.

<v Red Green>How many pizzas she ate, what size they were, what kind <v Red Green>of pizzas they were. <v Red Green>But we need to combine your sentences so they're more interesting. <v Red Green>Your first sentence is a good place to start. <v Red Green>You don't need to say contests twice. <v Red Green>So get rid of every word in the other sentence that isn't underlined. <v Red Green>Now you can combine the two sentences into. <v Red Green>Janet Brower won the pizza eating contest. <v Red Green>She ate 40 pizzas, the pizzas were big, the pizzas were mushroom. <v Red Green>How can we combine those three sentences? <v Bugg>I can get rid of these words. <v Bugg>We can put big where?

<v Bugg>Here!And <v Bugg>mushroom? <v Bugg>Here! <v Red Green>And that's a good story Bugg. <v Bugg>Thanks, Red. <v Red Green>Remember, always use interesting words like wonderful, <v Red Green>horrible, or greasy. <v Red Green>When you describe things, people enjoy your stories. <v Bugg>Right, Red. <v Red Green>It's air time. Get down to the studio. [phone rings] <v Red Green>Yes. <v Red Green>Of course, I knew about the pizza eating contest.

<v Red Green>I had R.B. Bugg there. <v Red Green>Why thanks, boss. <v Bugg>WORD has the results of the pizza eating contest. <v Bugg>Janet Brower won the pizza eating contest, she ate 40 big <v Bugg>mushroom pizzas. <v Bugg>And she was still hungry. This is R.B Bugg for WORD <v Bugg>News.

<v Red Green>Good show. Here's your next assignment. <v Bugg>Let's see what I've got here.

<v Bugg>The policeman saved the baby. <v Bugg>Uh oh, sentences start with a capital letter. <v Bugg>And this one ends with a period. <v Bugg>The policeman was brave. <v Bugg>The baby was little. <v Bugg>The policeman caught the crook, the crook was mean. <v Bugg>Too many words. <v Bugg>I should keep the first sentence. <v Bugg>And what else? <v Bugg>Brave, little. <v Bugg>Where should I put brave? <v Bugg>The policeman saves the brave baby? <v Bugg>No, the policeman was brave.

<v Bugg>The brave policemen saved the baby. <v Bugg>Yeah. Now, what about little? <v Bugg>The baby was little. <v Bugg>The brave policemen saved the little baby. <v Bugg>That sounds right. <v Bugg>A policeman caught the crook. <v Bugg>The crook was mean. Hmm, let's see. <v Bugg>The policeman caught the mean crook. <v Bugg>[Small laugh] Red likes interesting words, and I've got 'em!

<v Bugg>Brave policeman, little baby, mean crook. <v Bugg>All done. <v Bugg>Oh, no! Red needs this story right now. <v Announcer>The WORD evening news after this word, <v Announcer>caught. <v Announcer>Spell caught out loud. <v Announcer>C a u g h t, caught. <v Red Green>A robbery and a runaway baby carriage are in the news.

<v Red Green>The brave policemen saved the little baby. <v Red Green>The policemen caught the mean crook. <v Red Green>This is Red- Green. <v Red Green>Good evening. <v Announcer>Join us again tomorrow on The Write Channel. <v Announcer>Good night. <v Chorus>[singing] The Club, The Club, The Club, The Club. Use <v Chorus>your pencil, use your pen. ?Write <v Chorus>what you want in?. Open your eyes and look around.

<v Chorus>Make up a story and put it down. ?inaudible? Write a sentence, write a word in the club, the club, the club, the club, Palabra <v Chorus>Jot. [song ends]. <v Bugg>Welcome to the club Palabra Jot, Palabra Jot, the club <v Bugg>is now officially in session. <v Bugg>I made up this story, but I can't think how it should end. <v Bugg>Watch. Write down what happened. <v Bugg>Then write an ending to the story. <v Bugg>Then if you want to, send me what you write and you'll be in the club, <v Bugg>say the mantra with me. <v Bugg>Palabra Jot, Palabra Jot. <v Bugg>Now watch. <v Bugg>This is a story about a boy and a girl in a place they should not have been. <v Bugg>A junkyard. <v Bugg>I wrote about how spooky it got when the gate closed and the old cars began to look

<v Bugg>like monsters. <v Bugg>I can't decide what should happen next. <v Bugg>Help. Send your ideas to the club. <v Bugg>Post Office Drawer 1101. <v Bugg>Jackson, Mississippi, 39205. <v Bugg>That's the club. Post Office Drawer 1101. <v Bugg>Jackson, Mississippi 39205. <v Bugg>Write me, palabra jot, palabra jot. <v Announcer>The Write Channel was produced in cooperation with the Mississippi State Department of <v Announcer>Education Division of Instruction by the Mississippi Center for Educational Television in <v Announcer>association with the Agency for Instructional Television. <v Announcer>[Program ends]