September 25

 

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Freewriting (the skeleton in the class)
• Choose any two keyword outlines and use them to create two paragraphs.  Your choices are:
• Vulture Bees
• Dance Flies
• Effect of Music on Plants
• Glaciers
• Ice shelf Glaciers

Take a look at the example below.  Notice how each keyword entry becomes a sentence in your paragraph.

Our Statue of Liberty Outline

1.  huge / monument

2.  located / Liberty Island / NY

3.  built / copper / 100s ft.

4.  given / US / France / 1884

5.  symbol / friendship

6.  2 million  / people / come

7.  monument / freedom / famous

becomes a paragraph that looks similar to

The Statue of Liberty is a huge monument. It was erected on Liberty Island near New York City. Made from copper, this gracious lady stands hundreds of feet high. Originally given to the U.S. by France as a symbol of friendship, the Statue of Liberty remains an American landmark. Today, over two million people visit the statue every year. The Statue of Liberty remains a world famous tribute to freedom.

 

Here’s another example.

 

Note to parents:  This time through I’m expecting some choppy sentences and little sentence variety.  Next week I’ll be addressing sentence variety.  Also, topic and concluding sentences will be addressed a bit later in the course, so they will not be assessed in this assignment.