Author: Fischer, Kathleen

When answering written questions, students will use complete sentences.
•Students will restate the question.
•Students will not begin the first sentence with a pronoun (it, they, he, she, we, etc.).
•Students will spell words in the answer correctly if the word appears in the question.

Example: What effect did rivers and the monsoon have on ancient India?
Acceptable: The rivers and the monsoon provided India with enough water to sustain farming.
Not acceptable: It provided water to sustain farming.
Not acceptable: farming
Example: Why do people around the world have different ideas about how to govern
themselves?
Acceptable: People around the world have different ideas about how to govern themselves
because they have different histories, goals, principles, and problems.
Not acceptable: Because they have different histories, goals, principles, and problems
Not acceptable: They have different histories, goals, principles, and problems.

Students will indent all paragraphs.
When writing paragraphs, students will use topic sentences.
Example: In a paragraph explain the reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire.
Acceptable (topic sentence): There were many reasons for the collapse of the Roman Empire.
Acceptable (topic sentence): At one time the most powerful empire in the ancient world was the
Roman Empire.
Not acceptable: The capital was moved to Byzantium, so many people left Rome. (No topic sentence.)

3. Students will spell and correctly use the following words:
4. Students will capitalize the first word of every sentence.
Students will capitalize proper nouns in sentences.
Students will use the appropriate punctuation mark at the end of sentences.
5. Students will write legibly.
Legible—able to be read; clear enough to be read; capable of being easily understood

there their they’re	to two too	were we’re where
its it’s	no know	your you’re
new knew	write right	quite quit quiet