Today, we looked at the Apply Texas essay prompts.

We’ll be addressing Topic A, so the prewriting we are doing today is specifically for that topic. Notice the topic says “Describe your family, home, neighborhood, or community, and explain how it has shaped you as a person.” What does that mean? Well, it means don’t write about all of those things! It’s better to focus on one narrow topic rather than four broad ones. So, to help us decide what we want to focus on, we are going to fill out the prewriting chart.

As always, if I ask you to do something, I do it myself. Here is my example prewriting. But don’t get worried that mine is so long: I’m OLD! I probably have a lot more experience than you. You can also see that that I was able to spend a LOT of time in certain areas, and then didn’t have much to say in other areas. That’s okay. That should show you that you probably should AVOID writing about that topic!

This will be due tomorrow: we’ll have all day to work on this today, and tomorrow, we’ll have the day to finish the Writing Territories and this, the Apply Texas Prewriting.