Hi everyone,
We are beginning our essay on causes of the Civil War, AND we are heading into testing, so this is going to get interesting....hang tight, and keep checking back here at the blog for updates and information.
Today in class, IF you were done with the Venn diagram assignment for today, you started gathering information and ideas for your essay. If you did not finish the Venn diagram, you may need to do the info-gathering activity on your own. Instructions are below:
1) Take the materials handed out in class today. Stack them by common ideas - all the papers in the stack should share a common idea or topic (not a common format). Identify the common idea. You can create a fourth "I don't know" or "not useful" stack if you want.
2) Put each common idea on the organizer, on the lines marked "Common Theme #___".
3) Go back to your first Common Theme. Review the documents in your stack. Develop your theme into a full sentence - how was this theme a cause of the Civil War? Do this with all three themes. These sentences will be your topic sentences for your body paragraphs.
4) At the bottom of the page, draft a sentence that uses the phrase "causes of the Civil War" and refers to all three of your themes. This will be your draft thesis statement.
ALL students in ALL classes must submit draft thesis statements to me on WEDNESDAY for approval! MOST students (except those in the accelerated groups) must also submit draft topic sentences as well.
RUBRIC IS POSTED HERE.
TOPIC SENTENCE/THESIS GENERATOR IS POSTED HERE.
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