Unit 3 - Genre: First expository  essay - March 2010

Prompt: What is camouflage? Select an animal (deer or leaf insect) and explain how and why it camouflages.
Focus: - 3 paragraphs with indent and topic sentence
        - clear explanation
        - sentences that make sense


Score: Details: 4      Organization & sentences: 3     Spelling: 3          No direction provided for revision

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From Nazareth

   I am going to explain to you what is camouflage. Camouflage is used to disguise and conceal. The four kinds of camouflage are concealing coloration, disruptive coloration, mimicry, and disguise. Camouflage works by blending in with the surroundings and not being seen.
  I am going to talk about how the deer camouflages. The deer camouflages by using concealing coloration. It also is a color changer. In the summer, its coat is brown and the tall grass is brown. In the winter, the deer's coat is dark brown the tall trees help it escape its enemies which are the wolves. In the summer, the deer can fool the wolves even more because the coat matches the grass and their surroundings.
  I  am going to talk about why the deer camouflages. The deer camouflages so it cannot be detected and seen. It camouflages to hide and to escape. Anytime wolves are hunting, the deer have the tall golden grass and the forest to help them escape the wolves.

Score: Details: 3+      Organization & sentences: 3     Spelling: 3      Very little direction provided for revision

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From Victor

  What is camouflage? There are four different kinds of camouflage. There are concealing coloration, disruptive coloration, disguise, and mimicry. Some animals use colors, stripes, or even the animals shape. When an animal is using mimicry, it pretends to be dangerous. COncealing coloration is using colors to hide in the environment or surroundings. Disruptive coloration is using stripes or sports. When camouflage is used, the animal is almost invisible. Animals use camouflage to hide or math their surroundings so they can not be seen by preys or predators. If an animal's fur is the same color as its surroundings, it is using concealing coloration.
  How does the deer camouflage? The deer uses concealing coloration to camouflage. That means that the deer uses one color to camouflage. Its brown fur camouflages with the brown grass in summer and in winter, its fur is dark brown. When the baby fawn is in danger, it stays still and its spots look just like the sun rays. If the deer is in the wrong biome, it will not camouflage.
  Why does the deer camouflage? The deer camouflages to hide from predators like the wolf, coyote, or its fierce predator, the mountain lion. It also camouflages to hide from hunters that want to hunt them for food or fun..

From Andrea


      What is camouflage? Camouflage is when an animal blends in with its surrounding. There are four kinds of camouflage: concealing coloration, disruptive coloration, disguise, and mimicry. It helps the predator sneak up on its prey and it helps the prey to hide.
      How does the deer camouflage? The deer is brown like the brown grass in summer. The deer is brown like the brown tree bark in winter. It lives in the forests. It is a color changer.
     Why does the deer need camouflage? It needs camouflage so it can escape from its predator. It needs camouflage so it would not get eaten. Its predators are wolves. Wolves eat deer.


From Ruth

       I am going to talk about what is camouflage. Camouflage is blending in with the surrounding to be invisible. It includes outlines and colors to math the environment.
      I am going to talk about how the deer camouflages. The deer camouflages in the forest. It is a color changer. It changes color with the seasons. In summer, its fur is brown. It blends with the brown dry grasses and brown tickets. In winter, its fur is dark brown and matches the trees.
     I am going to talk about why the deer camouflages. It needs to hide and to survive. It needs to hide from hunters that sneak up on them. It also needs to hide from its predator. Its predators are wolves.


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From Gaby

     What is camouflage? There are four kinds of camouflage. They are disruptive coloration, concealing coloration, disguise, and mimicry. Camouflage is using stripes, colors, shape, and spots. It helps animals blend in with their surroundings. Camouflage helps animals hide from their predators. Camouflage helps preys so it won't go extinct.
    How does it camouflage? It camouflages by using disguise. It uses shapes to blend in with its background. The animal which is the leaf insect looks like a leaf. The leaf insect is green to match the green surrounding which is the leaf. It camouflages by staying still to look like a leaf.
   Why does it need camouflage? It needs camouflage so it won't get eaten by its predator which is the bird. It needs it so it won't get extinct. The leaf insect needs to survive. Camouflage help the leaf insect confuse the predator.

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Unit 2 - A thank you letter         Genre: narrative         January 2010

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