Assignment-Writing prompt

• Task• Prewrite• Revise• Draft• Publish• Evaluation.

Task

• You received $200 for your birthday ($100 in cash and $100 in gift certificates) and just purchased several articles of clothing with the money. Write an e-mail to a friend describing your shopping trip.

Prewrite Think about what you bought. Copy the categories in the following chart

on your paper.

Answer the questions using information from your notes.

Revise

Read through your e-mail. Check for spelling, accents, forms of the preterite, and agreement. Share the e-mail with a partner. Your partner should check the following:– Is the e-mail easy to understand?– Does it include all the information from your

chart?– Is there anything you should add or change?– Are there any errors?

Draft

• Use your answers to the questions above to write a first draft. You may want to begin your e-mail with: ¡Hola! Para mi cumpleaños recibí $200 para comprar ropa nueva. Decidí ir al centro comercial porque . . . Encontré . . . Compré . . .

Publish

• Rewrite the e-mail making any necessary changes or corrections.

• Actual email = 5 extra points.

Evaluation

• how easy the message is to understand • clearness and completeness of the

information • accuracy of verb forms, spelling, and

agreement • use of vocabulary

Prewrite Think about what you bought. Copy the categories in the following chart

on your paper.

Answer the questions using information from your notes.

Task

• You received $200 for your birthday ($100 in cash and $100 in gift certificates) and just purchased several articles of clothing with the money. Write an e-mail to a friend describing your shopping trip.