8th Grade English Writing Worksheet in PDF

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Welcome to my Perspective Consistency activity. Check out this excerpt from the training video I did for the New York City Department of Education. After that comes perspective consistency. A very common problem that a lot of my students have is switching perspectives, right, when they're talking or when they're writing an essay. Because you could talk about “they” and “them”, or “we” and “us”, or “you”, and very often students will switch perspectives right in the middle of their essay. For this activity they're given an essay already written, that constantly switches perspectives, and the students need to start with whatever perspective they want to use, and then go through the essay, and make a lot of changes, so that they stick to their one chosen perspective. What I like to do with my students with this one after they've done it written, I'll have them choose a second perspective, right, maybe the first time they chose the “you” perspective, now they're talking to “us”, “we”, and I'll have them just read the essay verbally and make the changes as they go along. A little more difficult but usually after they've done it the first time in writing they're ready to do it orally. Thanks for reviewing my description of my Perspective Consistency activity. If you like what you've seen here, please click and subscribe to my channel. I'm not exactly sure what that means, but my web guy told me it's a thing!

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