English 9 - Quarter 1
Introductory Writing Task: My Plan For Success in High School

DIRECTIONS: What is your plan for being successful in your high school career? Do you have strategies for meeting new people, doing well with your classes or coping with the stress of high school? In an informative essay, explain how you plan to have a successful high school experience at your new school.

As you write your response, consider the following questions:
How will you make sure that you are successful in expanding your friendships, completing your course work expectations, and taking care of yourself?
What social, emotional, and intellectual skills and strategies will you use as you navigate the challenges of managing your high school career?
Why is it important to have a strategy or plan of attack for balancing your social and emotional life goals and your intellectual goals to be successful in your high school experiences?

Your essay should include:
Approximately 400-600 words in length.
Clear and coherent writing appropriate to the task and the audience
Logical organization of and connections between ideas
Transitional words/phrases
Sentence variation (simple, compound, complex, simple complex) and transitions