Opinion story - turning it in - 45 minutes to work

Today is a partial writing day and you have the entire day, but you MUST complete your opinions story today. When you are finished writing the story, please publish it on your blog in a post titled "My opinions story".

Here are the requirements:

This piece will need to be 500 words and should be about 12-15 paragraphs long. You should have started this last class and should actively work on it during this class. You MUST publish today.

Here are the hints I gave you before:

Here are some tips to writing this type of story:

1. Start with a good introduction that gives us, in very short fashion, the basics about your topic. Make sure you state your DIRECT opinion on the topic you have chosen.

2. Write in 1st person if you want. This means you can use the word "I".

3. There are no quotes needed, BUT you will need facts to base your opinion on.

4. State your opinion early and support it fully.

5. Address the other side, this means you need to directly say what the other side might feel about your opinion. Not only do you need to acknowledge their side, you need to refute their opinion, that means you need to prove them wrong somehow.

6. Come up with some solutions to your problem and try to convince the other side that your ideas might work.

7. To close, you can restate your opinion.

So pick your topic, do some research about your topic on google (make sure its facts!! Google is not always factual!!)