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In this writing notebook entry, we explore the weekend reflections and the steps towards creating persuasive thesis statements. Our objectives include crafting a strong thesis, collecting evidence, and analyzing pros and cons from specific pages of a story. Group activities involve creating lists of key evidence with page numbers to support our arguments effectively. As we approach the drafting phase, the focus will be on organizing our thoughts and supporting our thesis with compelling evidence to develop well-structured body paragraphs.
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World Literature Monday October 3/ Tuesday October 4th
Writing Notebook • Describe your weekend.
Today’s Objectives To write a strong persuasive thesis To collect and analyze evidence
Today’s Activities • Pros/Cons list • Crafting thesis statements
In your groups • You will be assigned specific pages from the story. • Create a list of as many pieces of good evidence for pro and con from your pages • Be sure to include the page numbers so that everyone can use your excellent evidence if they choose.
P6 pros • Giggling. Killed him with the lamb chop. Destroyed evidence. Created an alibi. Loved him/he left her. plan
P6 cons • Giggling-insanity-pregnancy. shock
Choose your evidence and write a thesis • Using the patterns in your notes, write a thesis statement that clearly states your position.
By the end of the period • Choose your evidence for all three body paragraphs • Write your topic sentences You will be drafting your body paragraphs on Thursday