Friday English Week Thirty-Five
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Weekly Paragraphs
Print each of these activities separately and give a copy to each student.
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Week 35
Pumpkin Contest
Contributed by Lynda Reid
To be given several days before Halloween
For this weeks English, you are
to write about a plan you might make, think about the following situation:
You have won third prize in a
national contest and your prize is a tractor-trailer load of whole pumpkins.
These are delivered to you 5 days before Halloween, and are just dumped onto
your lawn, covering the entire front yard!
Are you happy you have won the
contest?
Are you pleased with your prize?
What plan will you make to get rid of
those pumpkins?
Now, after having thought about some
of the above questions, write a good paragraph, explaining the situation and
telling what you plan to do. You do not have to include all the
answers to the above questions.
Needed:
1) Good topic sentence
2) Three or four supporting sentences
3) A good concluding sentence
4) Your name, date and headings
5) A title
6) No spelling errors
7) Signature of the person who checked your rough draft.