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Course: ELA isolated skill practice > Unit 3
Lesson 2: Writing and grammar- Background information for writing practice
- Growth mindset: writing to inform; drafting 4
- Growth mindset: writing to inform; revising 4
- Growth mindset: writing to inform; editing 4
- Growth mindset: grammar; prepositional phrases 4
- Growth mindset: grammar; conventions 4
- Growth Mindset Extension Activities
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Background information for writing practice
Background information for this unit’s writing practice
The writing exercises in this unit are all about an assignment that an imaginary student, named Olivia, is working on.
You don’t need to do the whole same writing task as Olivia yourself! To complete the exercises, you need to put yourself in Olivia’s shoes as she works through the task, and answer questions to help her make the best choices.
Task description
Olivia's teacher has asked her to write a paper about someone that she believes has a strong growth mindset.
Here's the assignment sheet her teacher handed out:
Writing task: research, write, revise, and edit a short
Subject: A person with a strong growth mindset
Requirements:
1) Four paragraphs: an introduction paragraph, two body (main) paragraphs, and a conclusion paragraph
2) Include basic information about your subject (where they were born, their early life, their job).
3) Include challenges your subject faced and how he or she responded to the challenges.
4) Don't forget to edit for spelling, word choice, and punctuation!
Steps:
Step 1: Research a topic and organize information
Step 2: Write your first draft
Step 3: Revise your first draft
Step 4: Edit your second draft
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how does she know that she is wright(2 votes)
is this a graded question?(2 votes)
how do we know it is right(2 votes)- who can we write about?(1 vote)
- how do we know how were correct(1 vote)
- I noticed that everyone's getting confused with this, so let's see if I can explain. It seems that the site wants the reader to help an imaginary student named Olivia with her English assignment. The reader/student is not supposed to do the exact same assignment as her, though. This means the student won't have to go pick a person like Olivia did. Rather, the site provides questions as Olivia works on her assignment. For these questions, the student pretends they are Olivia or that they are trying to help Olivia. So for step 1, they likely already have the sources she used. So, the student looks through the sources and answers questions about needed information. As for the drafts, they likely are already given, so the student at this point simply corrects/revises her draft. I'm not exactly sure, but I really hopes this helps everyone! ( •́ .̫ •̀ ) Have fun learning about the growth mindset, everyone! ( ^_^)／(1 vote)
is this all for question number 1(1 vote)- how dose she know she did it right(1 vote)
- why do you need to be the best at it(1 vote)
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