Classification Intro 1:
I’m relaxing in the recliner, sipping on my hazelnut coffee, listening to the morning news. Kevin Mannix is reporting sunny and in the thirties for Monday, occasional snow showers for Tuesday, cold and in the low teens for Wednesday. My husband and I have planned on taking off on our snowsleds one day this week leaving from Millinocket going to Kokadjo. This is typically a six hour round trip drive and I’m debating on which day will be ideal for snowmobiling. The conditions have to be right if I’m going to be out on a busy trail for six hours. I take another sip of coffee and ponder over which day would be the best for snowsledding that distance.
Classification Intro 2:
My husband, my two children and I are at one of most favorite restaurants. This restaurant is located in Linneus and we usually eat there two to three times a year. The restaurant is simply called “Grandmas”. It’s a little hole-in-the-wall restaurant in the middle of nowhere that attracts patrons from miles around because of the huge portions that they serve. The waitress comes to our table to take our order. “Would you like baked, mashed or fries with your broiled scallops?” “Baked, mashed, or fries…..baked, mashed, or fries”, I ask myself. This is a popular question at most restaurants that I’ve frequented over the years. I’ve heard it at “Bugaboo”, “Texas Roadhouse”, “Governors”, “DiMillos”, etc. I wonder which option is the healthiest for a middle-aged woman like me.
Please take intro 1??? What if I prefer intro 2? In fact, I do prefer intro 2 because I can see exactly where it's going. Whether you can really write three grafs on potatoes is a separate problem, but certainly doable.
ReplyDeleteGraf 1 doesn't lead to any obvious classification essay--what would you be categorizing? Different types of days for snowmobiling? Types of conditions? Either could work, but at this point, in this graf, that's not clear.
I knew you were going to say that! Intro 2 was less tedious to visualize...free flowing for me. I don't know how I'll break baked, mashed or fried down. Nutritional value vs. describing the texture/description of the three potatoes. What is your opinion? Do you think I'm on track?
ReplyDelete:) Lisa
How much of a cook are you? I wouldn't try to get into nutrition and there's no need to tell me that mashed are softer than baked. But your cooking might be a way in. I have six milk cartons in my pantry with last summer's potatoes in them and I could write a lot about them. But that's me.
ReplyDeleteThe snowmobile topic could certainly work once you've settled on what you actually want to write about.