Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Essay on Coates Bluff Trail trek by Caddo Magnet students, Shreveport

A one-page essay for an online audience (third person; use quotes).

Describe the environment and activities of the students as though you were a reporter or an author watching the walk from a distance.

Use as much of this vocab as needed -
- Sycamore, cottonwood and water oak trees are the tallest.
- Hackberry (studded bark) elders also big trees.
- Cypress trees and knees.
- Colorful leaves were mostly Chinese tallow.
- Vines were rattan or muscadine.
- Soil type: loam.
- Slough: a stream.
- Bayou Pierre. Parallelled the Red River.
- Riparian environment - banks of a stream.
- Montessori School for Shreveport.
- Stoner Elem.
- 1983 Monte Carlo.

An option: create a detailed fiction that takes place somewhere and sometime in the Coates Bluff Trail area.

15 pts.

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