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Performance Assessment  Reminders: Bring your Independent Reading Project TOMORROW! Digital Media Projects are due Monday November 10

How will you get info on the VLT? Infographic Magazine article Essay Short Story The possibilities are endless – be prepared for ANYTHING! You will be writing to inform.

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Framework for an Informative Essay Introduction Create a hook to grab your reader’s interest and clearly identify your subject. Body Discuss each main idea and support each idea with facts and examples. Conclusion Tie your ideas together. Summarize what you discussed, restate main idea, or draw conclusions.

Performance Assessment Winged Lizards page 40 Close Read Answer the following in your books: Why is a descriptive text structure appropriate in this essay? Did it convey the lizards effectively? Be prepared to share your thoughts!

Performance Assessment The Albatross and the Cormorant page 38 Close Read Answer the following in your books: Did the structure of Luis’s model follow the text structure described in the source material? Explain. Be prepared to share your thoughts!