Lesson 17 — Activity 3: Assignment
Completion requirements
NOTE: You do not have to write the essay, just complete the plan.
Do the following:
You may use a computer or paper to complete this assignment.
1. You can type your work directly into the assignment box on the next
page by clicking the "add submission" button under the orange box at the
bottom of this page.
2. If you type your work into the attached Word document, save your document, and either send it to your teacher as an e-mail attachment or print it off and then hand it in to your teacher so it can be marked.
3. You can also choose to complete a hand-written assignment on a piece of paper. If so, please hand in your assignment to your teacher so it can be marked.
See the Marking Guide below to see how your teacher will grade this assignment.
In this assignment, you will plan an essay.
NOTE: You do not have to write the essay, just complete the plan.
Do the following:
- Click here to use the Essay Planner document.
- Complete the two pages on the document to create a plan for writing an essay on one of the topics listed below.
Possible essay topics:
1. Should students in grade 9 work part-time?
2. What kind of music do you like and why?
3. How does the most important piece of technology in your life work?
4. When you read the story "How Nanabozho Lost His Big Feast," you learned a lesson that the writer was trying to get across to the reader. Choose one of the following categories of lessons and explain why it is important to you:
1. Should students in grade 9 work part-time?
2. What kind of music do you like and why?
3. How does the most important piece of technology in your life work?
4. When you read the story "How Nanabozho Lost His Big Feast," you learned a lesson that the writer was trying to get across to the reader. Choose one of the following categories of lessons and explain why it is important to you:
- learning how to make the right decisions
- how to behave in certain situations
- how people should treat one another, other living things, or the environment
OR
5. You may use an idea of your own.
You may use a computer or paper to complete this assignment.
When you are done, review for spelling and punctuation.
Please do one of the following:
1. You can type your work directly into the assignment box on the next
page by clicking the "add submission" button under the orange box at the
bottom of this page.
2. If you type your work into the attached Word document, save your document, and either send it to your teacher as an e-mail attachment or print it off and then hand it in to your teacher so it can be marked.
3. You can also choose to complete a hand-written assignment on a piece of paper. If so, please hand in your assignment to your teacher so it can be marked.
When you receive this assignment back from your teacher, keep it. You can use this plan in a future assignment.
See the Marking Guide below to see how your teacher will grade this assignment.