Common Core High School ELA Question of the Day

Add more adjectives to every sentence to make the language sound more descriptive and poetic, without changing the structure.

Clarify and maintain a single point of view, restructure the scene to follow a clear moment-to-moment arc in the greenhouse, and add concrete sensory details and purposeful dialogue to reveal the realization.

Switch to second person throughout and insert a moral at the start so readers immediately know the theme.

Cut most descriptive passages to reduce word count and end with a direct statement of the lesson learned.