Writing the Paragraph

Last class held online, we had to review chapter 5 which was writing the paragraph. Today, we just went over it again as a class, refreshing our minds that the four paraprahs in an essay are the inreoductory, developmental, transitional, and the concluding paragraph. After reading through it, we completed exercise 1 which I found very easy. All it asked us to do was determine whether the essay given was an example of pattern A or pattern B, then we had to identify parts of the essay by underlining and annotating. The next reading that we went through was "student demonstration of all stages of the writing process" which was basically a recap of all the stages we have learned throughout the first four chapters and the book also gave examples of each stage to help us remember.

We continued on to Chapter 6 which was writing the essay. The first topic we learned about was introductions and the book gave us some introductory methods to remember and they are: a direct statement of thesis, background, definition, quotation, shocking statement, and questions and a definition. After reading through those methods, we completed exercise 1 that required us to choose any of the following theses listed and writing at least three introductions for it using a different method for each one. I think that this exercise was sort of difficult to do. I wasn't really sure how to use SOME of the different methods to construct an introduction...

~DON'T FORGET TO STUDY FOR TEST #1 ON WEDNESDAY!~