After choosing one of the topics in the Wordle above, create a brainstorm web about your topic. What are the ideas that come to mind when you think about that topic?

When you have finished your brainstorm web, write at least one paragraph about your topic. Your rough draft will be due tomorrow, Friday.

Your final draft of this paragraph will be typed in a Google Doc and will be due Wednesday, December 14th. Please title your document: [Student #] Open Writing Paragraph.

For Exercise 2 on pages 34-35, please type your answers into a Google Doc and then place it into your student folder. You will be correcting any sentence fragments you find in this exercise. Type the corrected sentence only, but be sure to show the correction you made by highlighting it somehow or by writing the explanation in parentheses after the sentence.

If a sentence is correct as it is, you can simply type "correct."

For each of the question words, please add at least one idea for a word or words that will fit that category. So, for example, for "who" you'll want to come up with some possible subjects for our sentences. Some ideas might be "seventh graders," "campers," "baseball star." 

If you'd like to see the example that I had on Elmo this afternoon, it's linked on the Handouts page or you can use this direct link:

Start with this sentence:  "Mr. Smith is celebrating."

Answer the following questions to change the rather boring "Mr. Smith is celebrating" into a much more interesting paragraph (3-4 sentences...or more):

Use the reporter's formula to revise one of the following sentences:

Write your questions on your paper, then write your paragraph.