Write a five-paragraph essay (introduction, three main paragraphs, conclusion),
Write a five-paragraph essay (introduction, three main paragraphs, conclusion), 750-1000 words. Your main paragraphs should focus on your family (whatever that means to you), your community (whatever that means to you), and your own individual experiences. Consider the following as you construct your essay: Family can be just your parents and sisters and brothers or it can include extended family like grandparents, aunts/uncles, cousins, etc., but it can also include other people who have had such a significant role in your life that they have become your family (or you have become their family). Your community can be the neighborhood where you grew up, the places you have lived, gone to school, worked, etc., and your friends and other people you have various relationships with in those places. But community can also be any group of people that you share something in common with who are important to you or that had an impact on your life. Types of communities could include racial/ethnic/language, gender/sexual orientation, religious, political, medical/disability, sports/recreation, art/music, other lifestyle/interests/hobbies, etc. Your individual experiences can include anything from ordinary, everyday experiences that shaped your life over a long period of time to major life-changing one-time events that reshaped your life all at once. These can be good experiences, bad experiences, and all kinds of experiences in between. Usually, your family, your communities, and your individual experiences are all intertwined and overlapping, but sometimes they can impact your life separately. Questions to Consider How important is family in your life? How much do you know about your parents, grandparents, or other ancestors experiences before you were born? What roles did your immediate family and extended family play in your childhood, in your adolescence, and as an adult? How important are the communities you belong to in your life? Which communities have shaped your identity in the most important ways? Which communities or parts of your identity have changed over time? Which individual experiences have had the biggest impact on you? Have your day-to-day experiences been more important? Or have larger, more significant specific experiences been more important? Are your most important experiences connected to your family or communities? Or have they been separate experiences? Rubric Word Count & Depth (10 points) Grammar & Mechanics (10 points) Flow & Structure (20 points) Content & Ideas (60 points)- Exemplary: Ends the introduction with a thesis statement/main idea that specifies how family/communities/experiences have impacted you. Fully explores and elaborates the roles of family, communities, and/or individual experiences in shaping your life. Meets the five-paragraph, 750-1000 word requirement. Accomplished: Introduction includes a thesis statement/main idea. Explores the roles of family, communities, and/or individual experiences in shaping your life. Meets the five-paragraph, 750-1000 word requirement. Developing: Attempts a thesis statement/main idea. Partially explores the roles of family, communities, and/or individual experiences. Approaches or exceeds the five-paragraph, 750-1000 word requirement. Beginning: No obvious thesis statement/main idea. Does not adequately address roles of family, communities, or individual experiences. Does not meet the five-paragraph, 750-1000 word requirement.