Formality

Teacher edition · Grade 6 · Lesson 17 · Literature · Essay Voyage

Writing Book 6 · sheet 56

Formality is a choice about your reader, not about yourself.

2. Your turn

In your notebook: apply Formality to three sentences of your own, double-spaced.

Below is what a full, correct answer looks like. Children's wording will differ and should — mark the thing this lesson taught, not everything at once.

Read out one sentence that uses Formality.model — accept any answer that does the same job

3. Before you finish

Read out one sentence that uses Formality.

Watch for*I shall endeavor to* is the failure of this lesson, not its success.