Friday, September 18, 2015

Due Monday

Your "betrayal" structured paragraph is due. Remember you are writing a three support structured paragraph on examples of betrayal in the Greek creation story.The notes that we took in class are available below.

Writing a Structured Paragraph

Topic Sentence/Summary Sentence:
Requirements: states paragraph topic and thesis

Thesis: attributes of Greek gods
Paragraph topic: betrayal

Example Topic Sentence: One of the attributes that the Greeks assign to their Gods in the story of creation is betrayal.

Topic sentence comes first in your paragraph, and the summary sentence comes last.

Transitions
Transitional phrases move one’s reader smoothly from supporting details to supporting details.
o Firstly, secondly,
o First of all,
o For example,
o Additionally,
o In addition,
o Furthermore,
o Finally

Ideas/Content
(Elaboration of Evidence)

Your evidence should consist of:

 Summary of an example of betrayal
 Explanation of how this shows betrayal



Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Due Friday

Please return a signed copy of the course syllabus. A copy is available here.