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Topic Sentences and Body Paragraphs. Topic Sentences. Checklist Topic sentence… Has key words that connect to the thesis. Makes a specific point (so what?). Can be divided into sub-points. Examples. Thesis - Wiesel demonstrates how faith shatters under the pressure of dehumanization .
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Topic Sentences • Checklist • Topic sentence… • Has key words that connect to the thesis. • Makes a specific point (so what?). • Can be divided into sub-points.
Examples • Thesis - Wiesel demonstrates how faith shatters under the pressure of dehumanization. • Topic Sentence #1 – When Moishe the Beadle sees how the SS treat the Jews like animals, he loses faith in God entirely. • Topic Sentence #2 – Elie witnesses the inhumanity of the SS in Auschwitz, and his faith dies on the spot and is gone forever. • Topic Sentence #3 – Throughout the book, we see several characters who try to hold onto their faith, but after all the inhumanity, lose it.
Introducing Quotations • NEVER start a sentence with a quotation. • You MUST introduce the quote. • Provide Context (scene, speaker, etc.) • Examples • If the quote has an “I,” “Me,” or “My” in it, you must tell the reader who is speaking. • Towards the end of the memoir, Elie states, “I was nothing but a body” (87). • The night of his arrival, after seeing babies unloaded into the crematorium, Wiesel recounts, “Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke…Never shall I forget the flames that consumed my faith forever” (34).