Turn your notes into a paragraph, using the techniques we
have learned in this chapter.
Introduction to the Problem
The National School Lunch Program (NSLP)
• second largest nutrition assistance program in the U.S.
• subsidizes over 30 million meals each school day at a Federal cost of $14 billion
annually (U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service, 2018).
• Traditionally, provides free or reduced-price meals
• for eligible low-income students
Growing number of schools and districts —> adopt “Universal Free Meals” (UFM)
• free lunch and breakfast for all students
• Student family income not important.
• Advocates hope UFM will
• reduce the stigma that limits participation
• address food insecurity
• improve student readiness to learn
• reduce administrative burden
• Skeptics worry
• possible deleterious effects on weight -> excess consumption or school lunch =
less healthy (higher calorie) than the alternative.
• the administrative costs
• potential budget pressures.
Few credible studies —> impact of UFM on student outcomes
• particularly important as UFM spreads across the country
n your paragraphs, use all of the sentence features that we have studied:
Important: Add a comment in the text when you use each of the items below. If you do not write a comment, you cannot get points.
- Compound sentence (9 points)
- Complex sentence (9 points)
- Compound-complex sentences (10 points)
- Relative clauses – that (9 points)
- Relative clause – which (9 points)
- Insert information – commas (9 points)
- Insert information – em-dashes (9 points)
- Insert information – parentheses (9 points)
- Semicolon (9 points)
- Colons (9 points)
- “SVO, -ing” sentences (9 points)
