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Outline
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Santa’s New Suit
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"Mrs"
  • Mrs. Claus sent Santa’s suit to the cleaners.  It came back three sizes too small.  Santa is in need of a new suit and fast.
  • Your job is to design a new suit for him and write him a letter to persuade him to choose the suit that you designed.
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"Go to a letter writing..."
  • Go to a letter writing site to know the parts of a friendly letter.
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"Have an idea in your..."
  • Have an idea in your head of how you want Santa’s new suit to look.  Now you need to open up the Paint program on your computer and design a new suit for Santa.  Remember to be creative.  After you have drawn the suit you want, come to me to print it.
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Letter checklist
  • Go through your letter to make sure that you have all of the required elements of a great letter.  Check off the ones that you have done correctly.


  • Heading written correctly with capitals and commas and in the correct spot
  • Greeting written correctly
  • Body – indented, capitalization, punctuation. Good persuasive paragraph to get Santa to choose your suit.
  • Closing written correctly
  • Signature in cursive and print
  • Good spelling is a must!
  • Correct spacing between words
  • Teacher permission to print letter
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Letter rubric