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| A few more winners added! |
I took these students to the library to type up their final drafts. I have had too many students who did not turn in outlines and drafts on-time to risk not getting the final draft. The ant debate is geared towards producing a great persuasive essay. If the debates have to wait, then they wait. Students can't learn writing if they don't write! Too many are choosing not to write. My job is to get them to write. So I am making them do it right in front of me.
Sections 4 and 5 continued their debates.
Here are the requirements for the final draft:
___ P1 Create a new handshake and thesis for the introduction.
___ P2 Write a very complete body paragraph (12 sentences) that supports your position.
___ P3 Explain what your opponent would say about the issue.
___ P4 Explain how your opponent is wrong based on your research.
___ P5 Conclude the essay with a summary and a “call to action.”
___ Be sure you have 6 transitions in your essay. Underline them.
___ Be sure your bibliography is correct.
___ Your piece should be grammatically perfect. Have someone else look over it.
___ Use Times New Roman font sized 12, single-spaced.
___ Indent all paragraphs.
___ Correctly punctuate book and article titles.
Transitions-
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Similarity
Likewise,
Similarly,
Just as…
In the same
way…
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Contrast
On the
other hand,
However,
Although…
Nevertheless…
Instead…
Not only…
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Sequence
Next
After…
Finally,
First, second, third
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Accumulation
Moreover,
In
addition,
For
example,
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Twelve Types of Introductions-
Humor Imagery and Details
Dialogue Quote
Question Anecdote
Excite Curiosity Bold and Challenging Statement
Pretending Real-Life Emotion
Nostalgia Amazing Fact or Statistic
Be careful punctuating titles and quotes from the book and the movie.
Use The Ant Bully or The Ant Bully because it is a movie title.
In the story Hey, Little Ant, the boy says, “Hey, little ant down in the crack,/ Can you see me, can you talk back?”
Transcribe poetry exactly as it is. Use a / to divide the lines.
