You Begin with a Decision

Teacher edition · Grade 8 · Lesson 7 · Literature · Advanced Academic Writing

Writing Book 8 · sheet 46

Before you write anything, you decide what you are doing.

2. Your turn

In your notebook: apply You Begin with a Decision 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 You Begin with a Decision.model — accept any answer that does the same job

3. Before you finish

Read out one sentence that uses You Begin with a Decision.

Watch for“I'm going to write about X” is a topic, not a decision. Push until there is a claim in the sentence.