Prewriting

1. Prewriting • Discuss with your neighbor, and write down ideas why water is important in your life. • Toilet, plumbing, swimming pools, water parks, showers, lakes, wells, oceans, water faucets,, water bottles, waterfalls, fountains, ice, rain, snow cones, perrier

2. Prewriting • Discuss with your neighbor, and write down ideas why water is important in your community. • Shower, swimming pools, sprinklers for grass, farming, rain/fires, lack of rain, lakes, puddles, oceans, pipes

3. Prewriting • Discuss with your neighbor, and write down ideas why water is important in your world. • Oceans, rain, fish, animals that depend on water, plants, water falls, rivers, seas, forests • lakes

4. Writing a Thesis Statement • The thesis statement should tell what you are going to write about in your essay. • You should have three points or arguments in your essay. These three points should be in your thesis statement. • Ex. Water is important because of 1)______2)_______, and 3)__________.

5. Five Paragraph Essay/Rough Draft • Prompt: Write an essay explaining the importance of water in your life, the community, the state, or in the world today. • 1. Introduction: • Thesis Statement plus Interesting Lead • Water is important because it increases quality in my life, in my community, and in the world. • 2.My life • Ex. Water increases my quality of life by………….. • 3.My community • Ex. Water increases quality of life in my community by……….. • 4.The world • Ex. Water increases quality of life in my world by…………. • 5.Conclusion • In conclusion, water is important because it increases the quality of life for myself, my community, and the world. Closing points.

6. Writing Introduction • 1. Write your thesis statement • 2. Try to include a lead to make it interesting.

7. Brainstorming Life • Toilet, drinking water, swimming, water parks, bottled water, drinking fountains, bathrooms, yards, plants,

8. Introduction • Lead/Thesis: How could we survive without water? Would there be life without H20? Water is important in my life, the community, and the world.

9. Body Paragraph /My Life • Topic Sentence: • Water is very important in my life. Everyday I use water to stay clean. Yea Hygiene. This morning I used the toilet. Yea, it’s daily and efficient, and without water my life would be different. Indoor plumbing is a modern miracle that most people around the world do not have. I brush my teeth, take a shower, make coffee with water poured from a faucet. I may not think about it, but turn that water off for a week, and we will all know how essential water is to our lives.

10. Body Paragraph 2/Community • Idea • Topic • Texas is a hot dry place and we need regular rain or we will be in a drought. We are in a drought. We are in the worst drought in Texas since the 1950s. Lake Travis is low and worse than that the area is so arid that we had numerous wild fires that burned hundreds of homes in this area. We need rain. We need water.

11. Rough Draft How could we survive without water? Would there be life without H20? Water is important in my life, the community, and the world. Indoor plumbing is awesome. Hygiene is something that is important to me. This morning I used the toilet. Yea, it’s something I use everyday and it is better than an outhouse, and efficient. Without water my life would be different. Indoor plumbing is a modern miracle that most people around the world do not have. I brush my teeth, take a shower, make coffee with water poured from a faucet. I may not think about it, but turn that water off for a week, and we will all know how essential water is to our lives. We are currently in the worst drought that this area has seen since the 1950s. Everything is very dry which has resulted in fires. Open fields and forests are a threat in an extra dry climate. Last summer we felt that as numerous fires broke out in Bastrop and Austin. The fires then burned hundreds of homes. It was awful. The needed rain was gone. We needed water and in a drought fires are one of the results. Our community is still in a drought, and we hope that the needed rain will come soon so there will be no more wildfires, and no more homes will be burned. Water is very important in our world. In many third world countries, they need water to survive. They are not as prosperous as we are. If they have a drought, it could result in death, as no rain leads to no crops, which leads to no food, which leads to famine or starvation. I don’t think about it that often, but if I lived in a third world country, water would be a matter of life and death. Basically water is important. It increases my quality of life everyday I wake and brush my teeth, wash my face, and just get clean. If it doesn’t rain in my community it could be disastrous. In the world because of the lack of water people are dying. Water is important.

12. Paragraph 3 Community In my community, water increases our quality of life. We are currently in the worst drought that this area has seen since the 1950s. Everything is very dry which has resulted in fires. Open fields and forests are a threat in an extra dry climate. Last summer we felt that as numerous fires broke out in Bastrop and Austin. The fires then burned hundreds of homes. It was awful. The needed rain was gone. We needed water and in a drought fires are one of the results. Our community is still in a drought, and we hope that the needed rain will come soon.

13. Paragraph 4 • Water is very important in our world. In many third world countries, they need water to survive. They are not as prosperous as we are. If they have a drought, it could result in death, as no rain leads to no crops, which leads to no food, which leads to famine or starvation. I don’t think about it that often, but if I lived in a third world country, water would be a matter of life and death.

14. Conclusion • Basically water is important. It increases my quality of life everyday I wake and brush my teeth, wash my face, and just get clean. If it doesn’t rain in my community it could be disastrous. In the world because of the lack of water people are dying. Water is important.