Title: Social Media Paragraph
Course: BC - English 7 - 2.0.0.0 > Section: Unit 3: Media Literacy and Writing Skills

The purpose of this assignment is for you to practice writing using proper paragraph format and to practice writing simple, compound, and complex sentences.

While the topic of your paragraph will be social media, you are not being marked for your thoughts on social media. Your teacher is mostly checking on your ability to create proper paragraphs that have a variety of types of sentences.

Your paragraph must have:

- A clear topic sentence
- At least three supporting sentences
- A concluding sentence
- At least one simple sentence, one compound sentence, and one complex sentence

Highlight your simple sentence in yellow. Highlight your compound sentence in light blue. Highlight your complex sentence in light green.

You can use one of the following questions as a prompt to get you thinking but write about what you know so that you can write freely without worrying about needing to look up information.

- Should 13-year-olds be allowed to be on social media? Why or why not?
- How do I want to use social media once I reach an age where I am able to?
- Is social media generally a good thing or a bad thing? Why?
- Are some types of social media safer or healthier than others? What makes you say that?

You can either type your paragraph on a Word document and upload it or complete it in the text field below.

Paragraph Rubric

 | Insufficient Evidence | Emerging | Developing | Proficient | Extending
 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
Paragraph format | My paragraph has too little content to adequately assess my proficiency. I need to resubmit this assignment. | I am learning to use proper paragraph format. I may be missing several elements, such as a topic sentence, a supporting detail, transitions, or a concluding sentence. | I am somewhat able to follow proper paragraph format. I may be missing more than two elements, such as a topic sentence, a supporting detail, transitions, or a concluding sentence. | I am able to follow proper paragraph format. I may be missing one or two elements, such as a topic sentence, a supporting detail, or a concluding sentence. | I am able to follow proper paragraph format. I include all elements, such as a clear topic sentence, three or more supporting details, and a compelling concluding sentence.
Writing conventions | My paragraph has too little content to adequately assess my proficiency. I need to resubmit this assignment. | I have missed including two types of sentences, or have highlighted all of my sentences incorrectly, showing a limited understanding of different types of sentences. | I have missed including a simple sentence, a compound sentence, or a complex sentence. I may have highlighted one or more sentences incorrectly, showing a developing understanding of different types of sentences. | I have included a simple sentence, a compound sentence, and a complex sentence, though one may be highlighted incorrectly, showing a good understanding of types of different sentences. | I have included a simple sentence, a compound sentence, and a complex sentence, and all of them are highlighted correctly, showing a strong understanding of different types of sentences.