Last week you wrote advice to your younger, ten-year-old self. Below you'll find some of it - organized by the period in which it was written. Toby, from A Boy's Life, could use some of your advice. Your task is as follows:
Select a piece of advice from your class period that you think would best help Toby. Then, in a thoughtful, thorough, multi-paragraph, short essay, explain why and how that piece of advice would benefit Toby.
Use the following criteria as a revision checklist:
- correct spelling and capitalization
- multiple paragraphs
- specific details
- at least one cited quotation
- no first person (I, me, we, us, my, myself, our, mine, ourselves) or second person (you, your, yours, yourself, yourselves) - except when used in a cited quotation
Please ask a teacher if you have any questions.
PERIOD 3
- Good friends accept you for who you are: you don’t have to act like someone else to impress them.
- Never judge a person by how they look.
- Not everyone is going to judge you as harshly as you assume they will.
- Nobody stays around forever. Don’t let this upset you, because there are so many others to meet down the road.
PERIOD 7
- Some things you might see as a huge problem to get upset about are actually very small. Don’t get upset because later on these things won’t matter to you.
- Telling the truth is better than lying. You might get yourself in trouble, but as long as the truth comes out, you won’t feel as guilty.
- Do not worry too much about mistakes, because making mistakes is part of growing up.
- Life is a pain. You will have a hard time adapting to new situations, but you will learn to deal with it.
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