Writer's Choice Grade 7

Unit 2: The Writing Process

Unit Activity Lesson Plans

Introduction
Students have read about the writing process. In this lesson, they will practice revising for parallelism.

Lesson Description
Students will revise fourteen sentences to make the structure of each parallel, rearranging the order of words or changing their forms if necessary. Students will write correct, if a sentence does not need revising. See Writer's Choice page 818 to review parallelism.

Instructional Objectives

1. Students will be able to write good sentences using parallelism.
2. Students will be able to create unity in their writing.

Student Web Activity Answers
Note that all answers provided below are examples. Student answers may vary.

1. Do you know that a dishwasher is convenient and easy to use?
2. If so, you'll want to remember, thank, and learn more about Josephine Garis Cochrane.
3. Cochrane, a socialite in Shelbyville, Illinois, in the 1880s, loved throwing large parties and mingling with guests.
4. Although her china was a valuable family heirloom, she enjoyed using it herself and sharing it with others.
5. On the morning after one dinner party, she noticed that some of the china was chipped and cracked.
6. Cochrane was not used to washing dishes, cleaning up, or doing any housework at all.
7. correct
8. However, she quickly discovered that she hated scraping off leftovers, watching her hands shrivel up in the suds, and drying dishes with a towel.
9. One day she sat down, lost in thought, creative inspiration, and excitement.
10. It took her only half an hour to invent a machine that would hold dishes in a rack, spray them with soapy water, and clean them by the force of water pressure.
11. The rack could securely hold her plates, bowls, and glasses.
12. correct
13. Her friends, neighbors, and family were impressed by the first mechanical dishwasher.
14. Cochrane applied for and received her first patent in December 1886.

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