Responding To A Prompt 2
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Graded Assignment
Responding to a Persuasive Prompt
Type your name, the date, your teacher’s name, and your school name at the top of this page. Type or paste your draft into this document. Be sure that your draft is double-spaced and in 12 point, Times New Roman font. Save the file as BWL_S2_02.06_Critical Skills Practice_FirstInitial_LastName.doc.
Example: BWL_S2_02.06_Critical Skills Practice_M_Smith.doc
(50 points)
Read the prompt below. Consider your position on the issue. Then respond to the prompt with a well-developed multiparagraph essay. You have 30 minutes to complete this assignment. Your assignment will be graded based on the Persuasive Prompt Grading Rubric. The rubric can be found in your Unit Resources.
Prompt
For many Americans, going to a summer sleep-away camp as a child is an experience to be treasured well into adulthood. Present and former campers often speak of the experiences and the friendships that resulted from their time at sleep-away camp as some of the most important and meaningful ones of their lives. Critics, however, often view summer sleep-away camps in a very different way, insisting that they are elitist and that the children who are sent there miss out on valuable bonding time with their parents and the friends who live in their hometowns.
Assignment: On the whole, is going to a summer sleep-away camp as a child a positive experience or a negative one? Why? Plan and write a response in which you state your position and persuade readers to agree with you. Support your opinions with reasons and examples drawn from your personal experiences, if you have attended such camps, or your knowledge of the experience of friends and siblings.
Type your draft here.
I think it is a positive experience because it teaches the child responsibility without their parents and it also gives them the oppurtunity to get more friends. I was never able to go on a summer sleep-away camp because my mom didnt have the money, but I really
Date:
Graded Assignment
Responding to a Persuasive Prompt
Type your name, the date, your teacher’s name, and your school name at the top of this page. Type or paste your draft into this document. Be sure that your draft is double-spaced and in 12 point, Times New Roman font. Save the file as BWL_S2_02.06_Critical Skills Practice_FirstInitial_LastName.doc.
Example: BWL_S2_02.06_Critical Skills Practice_M_Smith.doc
(50 points)
Read the prompt below. Consider your position on the issue. Then respond to the prompt with a well-developed multiparagraph essay. You have 30 minutes to complete this assignment. Your assignment will be graded based on the Persuasive Prompt Grading Rubric. The rubric can be found in your Unit Resources.
Prompt
For many Americans, going to a summer sleep-away camp as a child is an experience to be treasured well into adulthood. Present and former campers often speak of the experiences and the friendships that resulted from their time at sleep-away camp as some of the most important and meaningful ones of their lives. Critics, however, often view summer sleep-away camps in a very different way, insisting that they are elitist and that the children who are sent there miss out on valuable bonding time with their parents and the friends who live in their hometowns.
Assignment: On the whole, is going to a summer sleep-away camp as a child a positive experience or a negative one? Why? Plan and write a response in which you state your position and persuade readers to agree with you. Support your opinions with reasons and examples drawn from your personal experiences, if you have attended such camps, or your knowledge of the experience of friends and siblings.
Type your draft here.
I think it is a positive experience because it teaches the child responsibility without their parents and it also gives them the oppurtunity to get more friends. I was never able to go on a summer sleep-away camp because my mom didnt have the money, but I really