Writing Sample

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Select a topic below, or use a topic of your own, to complete a writing sample for your writing portfolio.

Suggested Essay Topics:

Choose ONE of the four topics below to write a sample. The sample can be a 5 paragraph essay of 200 words, or as long or short as you choose.
 
 

1. Write about an important person in your life. Why is this person important to you? 

 
2. What changes do you expect in the next 100 years? Will life be better?

 
3. Write about a recent change in your life. Has this change been easy or hard? Why?

 
4. Why have you returned to school? What is it that you most want to learn in your class?

 
 
 
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