Assignment:
Organize each of the two sets of sentences below into a logical paragraph.
(The know-new contract is the understanding between the writer/speaker and his or her audience that the beginnings of sentences will often refer back to something already mentioned ("known") before introducing something "new." This practice helps create cohesive, logical writing.)
After organizing the two sets of sentences into two paragraphs, Identify three principles you applied in assembling the paragraphs. How did you know what order would create a logical paragraph? Need Assignment Help?
From Carol Dunagan Smith and Lenora Dunagan's To Animas with Love, A History (2004):
A) Elma B. was the first grave in the Middle Animas Cemetery.
B) Their children were Mattie, Abbie, Mae, Joe D., Frank, Elma B., and Lewis.
C) She was not well and passed away at eight years old.
D) John and Ethel Rose Croom, living first at Playas, and then at Thygpen (see Chap. 4), came to Middle Animas [New Mexico] early in 1908.
E) Ma Croom pointed out the spot.
F) They were known in the community as Ma and Pa Croom.
G) They lived on the side of a hill in a dugout.
H) When asked about the "good ole days," Ma Croom replied that she just didn't want any more of them.
I) Their little daughter Elma attended school only a short while.
J) She'd had enough of the good ole days.
From a student review of a secondary source:
A) Danny was in need of special education placement.
B) The second issue Klein goes into detail about is children not being "accommodated in a way that meets their needs."
C) She uses a student named Danny, as she calls him, to demonstrate this problem.
D) In the article, "The Special Education Problems We Aren't Solving," Laura Klein uses personal experiences to shed light on problems in the special education system that need more attention paid to them.
E) The first issue Klein brings forward is "parent advocacy and participation."Klein goes into detail about two issues she has observed over her years as a teacher.
F) She uses the student Eve as an example for this situation; she struggles with paying attention in classes as well as acting irrationally at times towards students and teachers.
G) Eve's classified for special education with the specific label of "emotional disturbance," but since neither she nor Danny are put into the right classes, she will not get the accommodations she needs to learn properly.
H) The teachers were unable to make this classification due to lack of communication with his mother, and because of this he was not getting the correct help in classes he needed.
I) The teachers were unable to make this classification due to lack of communication with his mother, and because of this he was not getting the correct help in classes he needed.
(Elma Croom's grave in the Middle Animas Cemetery. Animas, New Mexico. She was my great-grandmother's sister.)