Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Writing Exercise #1

        

Read the following Associated Press article:   "Suit targets 'locator' chips in Texas student IDs"

Should school districts require students to wear an identification badge with a "locator" chip for attendance purposes?

Write your position in this argument (for or against) and three different reasons to support your position.

In class, the writing time was 8 minutes.

Avoid 1st (I, me, my, we, us) and 2nd person (you).

Expect different writing exercises to practice argument on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays.

Each Thursday you will be expected to turn in a Vocabulary Writing Exercise.  Choose five of the vocabulary words from that week's list and write sentences using the words.  The words must be used correctly and the sentences should include context clues.  Beginning next week, you will also need to use specific grammatical structures.

Vocabulary Writing Exercises will be due when you walk into class on Thursday.  I will not accept these late.  The vocabulary quiz will be given the first ten minutes of class.