02 Writing Pre-Test Persuasive Essay // Due the week of Sept. 8, 2016

Hi Everyone!

This week, you will be writing an essay based on the following prompt:

Timed Writing Prompt

Many parents give children a weekly or monthly allowance regardless of their behavior because they believe an allowance teaches children to be financially responsible. Other parents only give children an allowance as a reward for completing chores or when they have behaved properly. Explain what you think parents should do and why in a multi-paragraph persuasive essay.

Use only 30 minutes to write your essay. If you feel like your essay is finished before 30 minutes is up, keep writing to add as much as possible! If your essay is not finished after 30 minutes, stop anyways, even if it's mid-essay, mid-sentence.

For speed purposes, you can write this essay on paper or on Google Drive. However, if you write on paper, be sure to type it up when you're done and post to our class Google Drive folder. 

Don't stress too much about this assignment—it will be graded on completion. The purpose of this assignment is that I want to see what your writing level is currently at, and I want to see how you improve over the course of the year. At the end of the year, we will complete this again, and hopefully you will have improved!