Critical Question: How do you make smooth transitions and create an even flow in writing?

Task: Students will be able to identify the "broken record" or the "grocery list" in a sample of writing and apply previous writing strategies to improve these samples.

BROKEN RECORD: When each sentence begins the same way.

example: He had long black hair. He had a orange shirt. He had dark, bushy eyebrows.

GROCERY LIST: When the writer lists all the attributes in a single sentence, rather than describing each detail in a separate, well constructed sentence.

example: The old dog was brown, scruffy, dirty, mean, slow, and snarly.