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Today in L.A. we took a short D.R.P. paper about Mars and also shared our prefix monsters. For the prefix monster you should have drawn a picture of your creature, given it a name using at least 5 prefixes then written a paragraph telling us information worthy of a textbook about your creature.

During L.A. on Friday we talked about thesis and lead statements. A lead is an amazing or unusual fact, question, descriptive segment, bold opinion, quote, or statistic, and a thesis statement is when you briefly, but clearly, tell the reader what the piece of writing will be about. Also, we talked a little bit about detail generating questions to expand the paragraph, or to make the paragraph better detailed and interesting. Our homework was to write a closing paragraph from the old, boring paragraph, and sentence starters from the worksheet to make the closing more interesting and fun.