Read “Original Detail” by Natalie Goldberg (above) a few tim…

Read “Original Detail” by Natalie Goldberg (above) a few times.  Choose an idea that is significant or important to you.   Write that significant idea in the box below. These are her exact words.  Make sure to put quotation marks around the idea.  You do not need to explain the idea. This will be your evidence when you write the response paragraph in another question.

Read the topic sentence below that is in BOLD.  Then, in the…

Read the topic sentence below that is in BOLD.  Then, in the text box, answer the two questions.   When you write regularly without thinking it needs to be perfect, writing gets easier because you get used to not controlling everything.      1.  What is the focus of the topic sentence, the main idea being expressed? 2. Why is that idea important according to what is stated IN THE TOPIC SENTENCE in bold?

Write a Paragraph as a Formal Response to “Original Detail”…

Write a Paragraph as a Formal Response to “Original Detail” by Natalie Goldberg Now you will write a paragraph using the format we have been learning in class for formally responding to something you have read.   Below the line, write a response to “Original Detail” using the format you have learned in class.  This is not practice writing.  This writing is formal, and the audience (me) expects you to follow the form we studied and to edit for grammar and mechanics.  You need the following parts:  a topic sentence, evidence, and an explanation of that evidence. I suggest you write the paragraph by hand before typing it in.