Title: Week 09 Portfolio: Organizing a Paragraph
Put the following sentences in order from 2 to 9 to make a coherent paragraph. The first sentence is done for you. ________1________ Skinny, shy, and awkward, teenaged Bill Gates seemed an unlikely successor to his very successful parents. ________4__5_____ While he showed enormous talent for math and logic, young Bill was no one's idea of a future billionaire who would reinvent American business. ________2________His father was a well-known Seattle attorney, and his popular mother served on many charitable boards. _________3________ Still shy and awkward, he never went to parties without his friend Steve Ballmer, whom he later repaid by naming him president of Microsoft. _________5___6______ One day in December, 1974, Paul Allen, a friend of Gates, showed him a picture of a $397 computer from M.I.T.S. Computing that any hobbyist could build. __________6___8______ Gates and Allen contacted the head of M.I.T.S. and said they could provide software for the computer, and thus Microsoft was born. ___________8___4_______ Gates set off for Harvard University planning to become a lawyer like his father. __________7___________ The only thing the computer lacked, besides a keyboard and monitor, was software. ___________9____________ In his junior year, Gates dropped out of Harvard to work full-time on his new company. ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Name: Mahfouz Al-Ghamdi Date: December 06, 2011