“My First Free Summer” Essay

Let’s Look at “The Luckiest Time of All” Essay from the Assessment

• Repetition• Topic Sentence

“because”• Transitions• Commas• Random Periods• Paragraph Form• What’s a Sentence-

subject & predicate• Off Topic Sentences

• Information from the Story

• Talking to the Essay/ Audience

• Exclamation Points• Conjunctions as

Sentence Starters• Closing Sentence-

No “The End”• Write Out Numbers

Up to Ten

“My First Free Summer”Ten Sentence Paragraph

• Green- Topic Sentence- Answer the question without using “because”.

• Yellow- Key Idea- Support your answer. Use transitions. Include at least four key ideas. Stick to ideas from the story.

• Red- Explain- Explain or discuss your key ideas.• Green- Concluding Sentence- Restate your topic

sentence. Do not introduce anything new here. Do not change your opinion.