How to Eat a Banana

You've eaten a banana, right?

So, you know how to do it. 

That's why our Workforce Literacy class used a banana for a lesson on writing an essay!

"Spider Maps" are not creepy. They're just
visual outlines that make
it easier to write a good paragraph! 

We are learning how to use "spider maps" to organize our main ideas and details. We have to turn the spider's "legs" into sentences. One spider map becomes one paragraph. 

We also are learning how to use "transition words" to show a process. Phrases like "first" or "As you start" signal the beginning of a process. Words like "then" or "next" are used for the middle of the process. Words like "finally" and "in the end" tell us we're at the end of the process.

The best part of an essay?
Eating the Topic!

We have a chart in our Passport to Employment notebook with the transition words. We also have a chart on the wall.

We'll be writing our sentences and paragraphs Thursday. 

For now, we are all eating our bananas!