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PRACTICE 3
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Assignment #
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GENERAL COMMENTS
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SCORE
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pre-writing
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rough draft
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ideas & content
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organization
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voice
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word choice
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sentence fluency
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conventions
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SPECIFIC COMMENTS
D.W.A. Practice
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ESSAY OPTIONS: {choose
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1. Think of something you do well or enjoy doing. makes you good at it.
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EXPLAIN what you like about it OR what
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2. Pretend your class is putting together a time capsule that may not be opened for a hundred years or more. This time capsule will tell people in the future what life was like in the 2000s. You can choose three things to go inside. EXPLAIN what you would choose and why. Think about some of the questions that people in 2108 would have about your item.
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3. Think about one change you would make in your community. What would the change be? Why would you want to make that change? Write an essay to PERSUADE someone else that your change would make everyone’s lives better.
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4. Almost everyone has had at least one teacher who is hard to forget. Think of a teacher you have had that you will remember for a long time. DESCRIBE that teacher so clearly that your reader will know just what that teacher is like and what makes him or her so hard to forget.
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D.W.A. Practice, page 1
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D.W.A. Practice, page 2