L.A. scribe post
In L.A. today we handed in our pen pal letters and paragraphs on sharing a room can be difficult. Then we shared some of our paragraphs. We needed to include two of the five golden bricks in our paragraph. The golden bricks that we had to include were a statistic and an anecdote. An example of a statistic is 82% of our class prefers to sleep by themselves. An example of an anecdote is I remember the time when I shared a room with my sister and she talked in her sleep.
The other golden bricks are quote, an amazing fact, and a descriptive segment. Quotes are something that somebody said in a point in time. In a quote there must be quotation marks, the name of the person who said it, and why anybody should listen to them. An example of a quote is “The Porter boys basketball team has just ended the season undefeated,” announced Mr. Vangelder the basketball coach. 
Amazing facts have to be very unusual and never been heard of before. Examples are in your agendas within the offbeat oddity. An amazing fact is like this: did you know that a jiffy is a real measurement of time, it is a 1/100 of a second. The fact that the Yankees lost to Boston is not an amazing fact.
Last, a descriptive segment is a sentence or two that has adjectives from each of your senses(sight, hearing, taste, feeling, and smell). If you have a sentence with six adjectives that does not make it a descriptive segment. A descriptive segment would look like this: the waves of the ocean look like sailboats with the wind howling and making the hair on the captain’s head stick strait up. The water of the big blue smells of rotten fish, and the salt that blows into their mouths taste horrible.
