Write On: Season 2

Episodes

1. 

   Episode 1

   The Dreamer: Review 1

   Henry reveals to Miss Newton the lessons he has learned through daydreams. Flashbacks retell the need for concrete nouns, the difference between sentences and fragments, commas used with appositives and commas in a series.

2. 

   Episode 2

   Perchance to Dream: Review 2

   When Miss Newton criticizes one of his daydreams, Henry tells her of how he learned correct use of the semicolon, quotation marks, and hyphens.

3. 

   Episode 3

   Curses, Foiled Again: Parallelism

4. 

   Episode 4

   The Night Before: Effective Subordination

5. 

   Episode 5

   Show Business: Sentence Length

6. 

   Episode 6

   The Pharaoh's Daughter: The Outline

7. 

   Episode 7

   The Almost Dangerous Game: The Topic Sentence

   ""You are playing a dangerous game,"" Morton scolds when Henry's latest story lacks a topic sentence. This leads to a dream sequence in which Henry and Miss Newton wash up on an island. He accepts the challenge to write a cohesive paragraph. If the enemy (Morton) spies the mistake, Henry will lose.

8. 

   Episode 8

   Happy Daze: Paragraph Development through Details

9. 

   Episode 9

   The Old Man and the Paragraph: Paragraph Development through Comparison

10. 

    Episode 10

    The Scarlet Pen Pal: Paragraph Development through Contrast

11. 

    Episode 11

    A Critical Lapse: Paragraph Development through Cause and Effect

    Miss Newton is scheduled to appear in a play, and Henry has been asked to review it. Sadly, Henry falls asleep in the office, dreaming of Miss Newton's stellar performance. He ends up faking a review, which doesn't fool Mr. Morton any–not when a strike closed the theater.

12. 

    Episode 12

    Gone with the Paragraph: Paragraph Development through Definition

13. 

    Episode 13

    I, Henry: Unity

14. 

    Episode 14

    Scribbling Beauty 1: Coherence 1

15. 

    Episode 15

    Scribbling Beauty 2: Coherence 2

16. 

    Episode 16

    The Rocking Horse Writer: Emphasis 1

17. 

    Episode 17

    Their Finest Paragraph: Emphasis 2

18. 

    Episode 18

    The Case of the Missing Editor: Tone

19. 

    Episode 19

    Transition Trek: Transitions

20. 

    Episode 20

    The Devil and Henry Kent: Rewriting

    On a March day, Henry doesn't believe Mr. Morton's advice that good writing comes from rewriting. That leads to Henry's deal with the Devil: he can write anything he wants in one draft. The Devil will take care of the rest, until the end of the month. Come April Fool's Day, who knows what will happen?

21. 

    Episode 21

    An SOS: Loose, Lose / Passed, Past

22. 

    Episode 22

    Jungle Madness: Amount, Number / Fewer, Less

23. 

    Episode 23

    The Revengers: Could Have, Should Have

24. 

    Episode 24

    Beau Jest: Affect, Effect

25. 

    Episode 25

    MacHenry: Awful, Terrible, Nice

    Morton claims Henry's casual use of ""awful,"" ""terrible,"" and ""nice"" embarrasses him almost to death. That drifts Henry into a tragic parallel of Macbeth.

26. 

    Episode 26

    Henry Kent, Tycoon: Practical, Practicable / Raise, Rise

27. 

    Episode 27

    Henry's Angels: Regardless, Uninterested, Stationary

28. 

    Episode 28

    Leo Claws: The Business Letter

29. 

    Episode 29

    Dream Weaving: Review 3

30. 

    Episode 30

    Dream On: Review 4

    Finally, Mr. Morton learns that Henry's daydreams are his way to learning good writing skills.