Changing Your City

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Grade Level

• Middle School

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Subject

• Social Studies

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Length of Time

• One Hour

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Description

• Students will write a one to two page paper on what they would like to change in their city and why they believe those things need to be changed.

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Goals

• * Learning about their city
  * Thinking about changes that need to be made
  * Expressing their opinions
  

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Materials Needed

• * Notebook paper
  * Pens
  

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Procedure

• First, the students need to think about the changes they think need to be made in their city and write them down. Then, they need to formulate their ideas into a one to two page paper on what they would do to change their city and why. They need to write a topic sentence and then write their paper. After that, they will submit their paper to you for grading.
  

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Grading

• You can grade them on their realistic ideas, sentence and paragraph structure, and how well they developed their ideas.
  

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