Making the Grade: Evaluating a Narrative Paragraph (page two)

Here are suggested responses to the questions that follow the narrative paragraph on page one, "Making the Grade."

Making the Grade

1. Sentence six ("I was in the third grade at the time") appears to be out of place. This piece of information could be added to the first or second sentence.



2. Here is the topic sentence that was added to a revised version of the paragraph:

   I learned a valuable lesson about cheating after I changed a mark on my report card in the third grade.

   Of course, various answers are possible.


3. Here is how dialogue was used in the revised version of the paragraph:

   . . . She told me that there were some things much worse than failing, and that cheating was one of them. I tried to argue.
   
   "You told me to change my grades," I said.
   
   "That's not what I meant, and you know it," she hollered back.

   Again, various answers are possible.

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