In class today we reviewed the big Venn diagram from Friday's class in which we charted similarities and differences of the evolution of McCain's and Obama's identities. Second, we reviewed and charted requirements of excellent "sandwich" paragraphs. The last half of class was spent rough drafting three paragraphs. One paragraph should clearly show similarities of the candidates' identities while the other two should highlight each candidate's uniqueness. You are encouraged to add and/or delete ideas from the whole class big Venn diagram to select the details and support you want to emphasize.
HOMEWORK TONIGHT is to complete all three rough paragraphs and double-check that you have all required paragraph elements:
1) TOPIC SENTENCE: introduces main idea of paragraph, has "pizazz" (opinion, hook, lead) or importance. A page of words and phrases for "pizazz" and importance was passed out.
2) Minimum 3 R-E-D's (reasons, examples, details) for the body (middle) of each paragraph.
3) LINKERS/Transition Words/Phrases: another chart of these was passed out.
4) CONCLUSION Sentence: re-states the topic sentence, importance, opinion, summary or echo the topic sentence in a new way (find a synonym for topic sentence's pizazz word/phrase).
Minimum: 5 SENTENCES PER PARAGRAPH
Don't worry about proofreading, revising, or final drafting yet. We will work on this in class tomorrow.
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