Letter Draft 5 Paragraph

Federal Civic-Action Letter Template — 5-paragraph structure for child-authored letters to a US Representative or US Senator: (1) Introduction: 'I am a fourth-grader in [state]. I am writing about ___'; (2) Background: one paragraph stating the federal-history content the child learned (e.g., the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the Trail of Tears, the Chinese Exclusion Act, the Homestead Act); (3) Claim: one sentence on what the child believes (e.g., 'Chinese American railroad workers should be honored at the Promontory Summit National Park'); (4) Evidence: three pieces of evidence from primary sources studied in the unit; (5) Acknowledgment of counterclaim + ask: one paragraph acknowledging a possible counter-view + the specific federal-level action requested (e.g., 'Please support [bill number] / Please write back about your work on this'). Address-research scaffold for finding the child's actual US Representative via house.gov and US Senators via senate.gov. Caregiver-consent form attached. Style: clean 5-paragraph template, sentence frames on the side.