1. What was your favorite/least favorite part of summer?
Your topic sentence should be catchy AND answer the question presented to you.
Work, Work, Work! That’s all I feel like I did this summer! Working too much was definitely my least favorite part of summer.

2. Details, Details, Details!
Every paragraph should have at least THREE supporting details that address your topic sentence and help answer the question presented to you.

3. I hoped to have a little bit of a vacation when school was over in June, but that didn’t happen! As soon as the kids went home for summer, I was back to work summer school.

4. As if working four days a week at summer school wasn’t enough, I also tutored several students. It paid well, but still didn’t give me the opportunity to nap as often as I would have liked.

5. Finally summer school was over and I looked forward to a couple weeks of naps and tanning. My plans were quickly changed when I was asked to help work in the front office. Great! More work, less naps.

6. While I wish I hadn’t worked so much over the summer and had napped more, if I had to find something good about it, I would say it was extremely profitable.

7. Essay Writing
If you were writing an essay about your summer, the paragraph we just wrote would be your opening paragraph.
You would then have a paragraph for each supporting detail, explaining it in even more detail.
- Then you would need a closing paragraph to wrap up your essay.