Writing I Week 4 Assignment

Assignment Overview

Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to strengthen your ability to write and review a clear five-sentence paragraph. By working with a classmate, you will practice identifying clauses and sentence types, checking punctuation and paragraph organization, and recognizing the main idea and supporting ideas while using peer feedback to improve your writing.

Assignment type: Pairs

Instructions

1. Complete outline.

2. Complete five-sentence paragraph.

3. Exchange notebooks.

4. Add to your classmate’s notebook today’s date and Review by [your name].

5. Review classmate’s body paragraph from yesterday

   1. Identify each clause (subject + verb) and mark using parentheses. For example, (Tom threw) the ball.

   2. Check to see there are five sentences and that each sentence concludes with a period (full stop). No question or exclamation marks.

   3. Identify each simple, compound, and complex sentence. See Mastering sentence types: A guide to simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences for more.

   4. Answer the following sentence stems:

      1. I think the main idea is…

      2. The three most important supporting ideas are…

      3. After reading my classmate’s paragraph, I understand…

6. Return text to your classmate.

7. Take a picture of your body paragraph along with the comments made by your classmate.

8. Submit your image to Teams assignment.

Deliverable to Teams Assignment

1. Attached Word document to Teams assignment.