Write for different audiences — academic, civic, creative — with register-aware moves (CCSS W.8.4; NCTE-4)
Exercise Difficulty 4 ~12 min eng.g8.s.ex_13

Mentor Mimicry

Prompt

Choose your matched mentor (Tan academic-civic / Walker hybrid / Sedaris creative / Stevenson civic / Noah civic-creative). Write 1 paragraph on YOUR capstone topic mimicking your mentor's REGISTER (not their content).

Answer criteria
type rubric
rubric
Paragraph + named mentor + register features mimicked (≥3) + own content preserved = mastery
Hints
  1. Borrow rhythm, diction, structural moves — not topic.
  2. Notice your mentor's sentence-length patterns.
Misconceptions to watch
  • Copies mentor wording verbatim (plagiarism).
  • Loses own content in mimicry.
Used in lessons