Instructions: Write a persuasive essay, with an introduction, 2 or 3 well-supported body paragraphs and a concluding paragraph, on ONE of the following topics: Should Canada increase the legal driving age to 18?
Should people have to pay a higher tax on junk food to encourage healthy eating?
Should cigarettes be made illegal?
Please take 3-5 minutes to carefully read the following instructions:
Answer “yes” or “no” to the “Should” question. Your thesis will simply answer the question “In my opinion, X should…” or “From my perspective, X should NOT…” and then add your predictor with “because. . . ” For example, “Canada should increase the legal driving age to 18 because. . . ” Take 15-20 minutes to brainstorm (you can use this page to write your ideas).
Take 10 minutes to make an outline with your thesis statement, predictor and topic sentences. Make sure you clearly state your thesis statement and predictor in the final sentence of your introduction Include 3 parts in your introduction: hook, background information and thesis (central argument) with predictor. Make sure each body paragraph has a clear topic sentence that is connected to the thesis and predictor. Include detailed support for each body paragraph.
The Essay on Sentence Composing
1. The conventions of the Kentucky Writing Scoring Rubric are grammar and usage, word choice, correctness, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and abbreviation and documentation. What I would do to teach grammar and usage would be to use Don and Jenny Kilgallon’s book called Sentence Composing for the middle school, which stresses how to combine sentences. It is a somewhat nontraditional ...
Your concluding paragraph must be at least three sentences (re-state thesis, summary or more BI, final thought).
Use correct transition words and conjunctions to organize and connect your ideas Edit for subject verb agreement, plural/singular, word form, articles, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling. Indent all new paragraphs. Make sure all paragraphs are legible and double-spaced. Give your essay a title in 3-5 words – Do NOT write a question.
