- Grade 8 Baseline Annotation – Expository Writing - #811FT
Prompt: Life can be full of surprises that have an effect on our lives.
- D.
- Message is insightful, distinct and/or anticipates questions.
- Uses one or more of the
introduction strategies.
- Creatively engages the reader.
- Between paragraph transitions are
occasionally lower level telling transitions (e.g. “Moving on to the last thing that
surprises me” and “Then we move on the careless ignorance”). These transitions,
though telling, are not the basic “first, next, finally” transitions. Baseline Annotation 811FT.docx Date Revised: 9.16.2011 ...
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