On-Demand 10

Writing Situation:
After reading “College Entrance Exams,” consider your feeling on exams being used to determine college admission.
Writing Situation:
Write an essay for the school newspaper stating your opinion whether colleges should rely on entrance exams to grant students admission to their programs. Support your opinion.
***This would be a 90-minute piece with an article to read.***

• informative
• opinion
• narrative

Writing Situation:
Leaders in in your country are considering a law that would require all dog owners to keep their dogs on their property or on leashes while out in public. The country has received many complaints in the last month about dogs running across busy streets, into neighbor’s yards and through elementary playgrounds. Some citizens have expressed fears for their safety. If this law is passed, anyone who breaks the law will have to pay a fine. Country leaders are seeking public opinion as they consider this law.
Writing Directions:
Decide if you think this law is a good idea. Write an email to the county leaders giving your opinion about whether this law is necessary or not. Use specific details to support your opinion.

• informative
• opinion
• narrative

Writing Situation:
The principal has been noticing that students have been mean to other students by teasing them or leaving them out.
Writing Directions:
Write a story for the school newspaper narrating a time a classmate teased you or left you out (or someone you know). Explain how to solve this situation.

• informative
• opinion
• narrative

Writing Situation:
Most boys and girls are afraid to go to the dentist, especially the first time. Your dentist is trying to do something to help his new patients relax. He’s putting together a magazine full of feature articles written by other children who have visited him. These feature articles will persuade new patients not to be afraid of coming to the dentist. They will tell about a time when they visited him and found out that it was not bad at all. (Perhaps it even turned out to be fun.)
Writing Directions:
Think of a time when you were really afraid of visiting your dentist, but found out that it was not painful at all. Write a feature article for your dentist’s magazine to persuade boys and girls who are new patients not to be afraid to come to your dentist.

• informative
• opinion
• narrative

Writing Situation:
“Dress for success” means different things to different people. Why does it matter how a person dresses?
Writing Directions:
Write an essay explaining what “dress for success” means to you.

• informative
• opinion
• narrative

Writing Situation:
All of us have favorite people in our lives. We tend to like them because of specific qualities they have or because of specific things they have done. Why has one person you know become one of the favorite people in your life?
Writing Directions:
Write an essay explaining the qualities and interests that make you like this person.

• informative
• opinion
• narrative