Shiloh's Homeschool Dashboard

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What will you code today?
Paragraph Writing Checklist​
  • What is your purpose?
    • ​Describe
    • Persuade
    • Explain
    • Tell a story
  • Structure your paragraph.
    • ​Topic Sentence
    • Details (3 to 5 sentences)
    • Concluding Sentence
  • ​Make each sentence better.
    • ​Subject, Verb, Capitalize, Punctuation
    • Colorful language: variety of verbs, adjectives
    • Add 2 descriptive clauses: when/where or why/how
    • Double check spelling and grammar.
Book Blog Post Format
  • Tell the Story (what, who, prob, solve, lesson, title)
  • Describe what you like and don't like (story plot, style of writing, pictures, topic, format)
  • Relate it to your life
Biography Post Format
  • Identify the lifework (career, problem solved or worked on)
  • Childhood - focus on events that led to lifework
  • Transition - early adulthood, again focus on events that led to lifework
  • Describe life work and contributions - how someone changed their world
  • Legacy - Describe what they left behind that we have today
  • Life Lesson - Describe a life lesson you can take a way from their life.
Patricia's Vision: The Doctor who Saved Sight
  1. What was Patricia's childhood dream?
  2. How did she explore that dream growing up? What did she do?
  3. What volunteer work did she do in college?
  4. What kind of doctor did she decide to be?
  5. What did she believe was a human right?
  6. What big problem did she solve that others could not?
  7. What tool helped her solve that problem?
  8. How did she help children in Tanzania?
  9. Vision is not only the ability to see or a sight that you see, it is also about seeing things that are not really there but you hope will be there. How did Patricia fulfill all the definitions of vision?