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Prewriting Planning Your Response
State Your Opinion 🟪 Once you carefully analyze the prompt, you need to form a personal opinion. You can do this by using the following formula:
Your Subject + Your Feeling =
A class that should not be cut + Save fourth and fifth grade choir
Your Opinion
One class that you should definitely not cut is fourth and fifth grade choir.
List Your Reasons 🟪 Next, you need to jot down the reasons you plan to use to support your opinion. Put them in whatever order you think of them. Afterward, you can choose which reasons will be your main points and number them in order. The other reasons can be supporting details for your main points.
— Choir helps us listen to each other and work together.
— It helps us breathe and make art and feel joy.
— It prepares us for performing in middle and high school.
— I want to be in Jazz Choir and in the high school musicals.
Your Subject + Your Feeling =
A class that should not be cut + Save fourth and fifth grade choir
Your Opinion
One class that you should definitely not cut is fourth and fifth grade choir.
— Choir helps us listen to each other and work together.
— It helps us breathe and make art and feel joy.
— It prepares us for performing in middle and high school.
— I want to be in Jazz Choir and in the high school musicals.