Week 3 Nov 20-24
TASK 4 - Problem Solution, short essay
Your task is in two parts:
- Prepare to write: Complete the worksheet with two topic sentences and return it in your first class.
- Give your essay a title, complete the paragraphs, and submit the 3-paragraph essay to your instructor by the end of your second class.
Class 1: Complete the handout with two topic sentences
Diections:
Prepare to write - Complete the worksheet with two topic sentences and return it in your first class.
Your handout looks like this
This week you will write a three paragraph essay in Problem-Solution format.
The first paragraph is done for you ...
This is the start of a short essay on a common problem in English classes:
Every Sunday, cadets come to classes tired because they did not get enough sleep. This has become a problem for the instructors. There are several reasons for this. However, there could be a way to solve this problem.
Write two topic sentences that will start two more paragraphs.
- The first paragraph is on reasons for students being so tired in class,
- The second paragraph is about solutions to the problem.
Topic sentence 1
Topic sentence 2
Class 2: Write the 3-paragraph essay
Directions:
Write the essay - Give your essay a title, complete the paragraphs, and submit the 3-paragraph essay to your instructor by the end of your second class.
By now, after three weeks in the course and a week-long holiday, each student is expected to have a Google Account and to be in the HCT Network System.
In case you have not got around to creating a Google account, of if you've forgot your password ...
You can complete this in GoogleDocs or Word.
Copy the first paragraph to a Google Doc or Word Document.
How this work is marked
In class you were asked to begin a short essay on a problem at the Naval College and its solution. The essay should have 3 paragraphs. You copied the first paragraph into a Google Doc. You were expected to write the TOPIC SENTENCES for the second and third paragraphs on a worksheet and hand this back to the teacher. That worksheet is marked separately.
In your Google Doc you are to write the three paragraphs. Each paragraph should begin with a good topic sentence. Your completed essay is due in class Nov 23
Please follow the instructions on the worksheet to complete the essay Nov 23-24.
This feedback is placed in your Google Doc. When you complete an item it is colored in red
Points - What you have to do for these points
10 - Share the document with your teacher
10 - Rename the document with your Name and Date
10 - Paste the first paragraph into this document
10 - Write a second paragraph about the problem
10 - Write a third paragraph about the solution
10 -Each paragraph has a good topic sentence
10 - Your work is revised according to feedback
10 - Use Capital Letters correctly
5 - Indent paragraphs
5 - Spelling
5 - grammar
5 - Full stops after sentences.
No space before full stops, or commas.
Spaces follow full stops and commas, like this.
Your score out of 100 points:
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