When I picked Joy up from school today she said they'd had a writing assessment, and she lamented that she tried for an hour and couldn't come up with anything to write. I was sympathetic until I saw what she had drawn on the back of her assessment paper.
She had spent most of the hour drawing a map of Queen of Everything Super Awesome Underwater World (QESAUW, for short). No wonder she hadn't managed to compose even a topic sentence.
The substitute teacher let Joy take her assessment sheet home to work on it some more (technically, I don't think she was supposed to do that), and Joy put her time to good use . . . adding more buildings to her map with alliterative names like Zaney Zipporium and Cool Company. I think we can deduce a few things about Joy from this little assessment, and they have nothing to do with her ability to compose a correctly structured paragraph.
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