Read chapter three in your textbook. Here is your writing assignment from that chapter.

Ulrich uses evidence from the record of the daily life of one eighteenth-century New England woman to draw conclusions about the beliefs and values of colonial society. For a week, keep a complete and accurate record of one aspect of your own life. choose one of the following:

• the places you go
  
• the things you spend money on
  
• the people you speak to
  

Read your record, and draw some conclusions about your own values and beliefs. Do you think that your daily experiences and the conclusions you came to about your values and beliefs are typical? do they reflect what most people in our society would do? If historians from another culture or time looked at your record, would they be able to draw valid conclusions about life at the end of the twentieth century in the United States? Write a paper of two or three pages that informs your readers about your conclusions (Troiano and Scott 116).

Here are my added directions for this assignment:

Make sure your essay has the three basic parts: introduction, body, conclusion. The introduction should make it clear to the reader what you have done in preparation for the essay and what your purpose is. Your main idea should be stated at the end of your introduction. The introduction should have an interest catcher, something to attract the reader's attention (see pages 172-174).

The body of your paper should present your findings in an organized way. Each of the things you discovered about your daily life by keeping the record should be presented in a paragraph with a topic sentence(see pages 164-167) . These paragraphs should be developed with specific examples. For instance, if you say, "The record of how I spent my money for the week shows that thirty-five percent of what I spent ($27.00) was on food," then you need to tell whether you spent your money on fast food, food you bought at the grocery store and prepared at home, or food you ordered delivered. How much did you spend on each type? At what restaurants did you eat? What did you order? What did you cook at home? What was the comparative cost? Answering these kinds of questions will provide the specific information you need.

Finally, your essay should have a conclusion that presents what you learned about the one aspect of your daily life that you explored and addresses the kinds of questions that Troiano and Scott ask in the writing assignment.

The completed essay must be at least 500 words. There is no limit on length, but all essays should be concise, informative, and correct. Longer essays that multiply errors simply provide more justification for a poor grade. Microsoft Word will tell you how many words there are in a document.