Dear Humans,

Today we’re going to draft our informational essays. And I know that the blank page can be intimidating. That’s because there are an infinite number of ways to say a thing. That doesn’t mean that every way to say a thing is the right way to say it. Or that there is no wrong way to say the thing. But there’s never only one way to say a thing.

And if we get too worried about trying to find the one right way to say a thing, then we’re never going to figure out our own way to say it. And that’s the whole point of picking up a pencil in the first place: to scrawl out something in the way that only we can.

Sincerely,

Mr. Curt