A Clearer Plan for School Announcements
Dear Ms. Henderson,
Thank you for all the energy you pour into organizing our school events and after-school clubs this year. From the fall festival to the spirit weeks, your office creates opportunities that make our middle school experience memorable. Because these activities matter so much to our student body, I am writing to propose a small change that could help more classmates take part: adopting a standardized format for all activity announcements, whether they appear on the morning slideshow, hallway bulletin boards, or our digital portal.
- standardized:
- Conforming to an established, uniform rule or model.
- auxiliary:
- Providing supplementary or additional help and support; secondary.
- omitted:
- Left out or excluded, either intentionally or by accident.
- template:
- A preset format or pattern used as a guide to create consistent documents.
- predictable:
- Behaving or occurring in an expected, dependable way.
- pilot:
- A small-scale experimental test run conducted before a wider rollout.
- rigid:
- Strict, inflexible, or difficult to adapt to different situations.
- discard:
- To get rid of or abandon something that is no longer useful.
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- 1What central claim or proposal does Marcus Reed present to Ms. Henderson in his letter?
- 2How does the author use the volleyball tryout incident to support his central argument?
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About this persuasive letter passage for 8th Grade
“A Clearer Plan for School Announcements” is a persuasive letter reading passage about school event communication, written for 8th Grade. It takes about 4 minutes to read (585 words) and comes with an interactive quiz and a printable worksheet with comprehension questions and an answer key.