12-4-17

So today in class we began to learn about paragraphs. I know, so exciting. We began by looking at an image of a paragraph with words in it. And when I mean word, I mean the word "word" written in for words. This was put in so we could identify the different parts of words. We learned about the claim; the the topic that was being argued. This is put at the beginning of the sentence to introduce the reader to what they are going to read about and to have something to connect the evidence to. Evidence is next which was alluded to in the previous sentence, which is quite simply: facts, quotes, and anything that is hard and definite. After learning about evidence we learned about what the difference is between a claim and evidence. Put simply, evidence is something that cant be argued because it is a fact, so it cannot be a claim. Now we did touch a little on analysis, by saying it comes after the evidence and is used to connect it back to the claim. After the analysis there is a concluding sentence which is meant to offer the thesis with the points made in the analysis of the conclusion. We also touched on how to add specificity to a claim. We did this by asking the five W's and the H to add specificity, similar to what we did with our theses previously in the year.
This is relate able to everyday because we are finally learning something most teachers prior have neglected to teach us. To actually write a paragraph. And with this knowledge we will apply it to practically everything. Almost any job out there in this world will require writing and if this is news to you then...I'm sorry.  But, having knowledge on how to write an acceptable paragraph will be useful in writing, labs in chemistry, DBQs in history, cops have to do it, bankers have to do it, historians have to do it, even mathematicians have to write paragraphs! So my point is, if its not clear enough, is that if you want to do anything in life, you need to be able to write a paragraph.
(For those who were confused about the word thing, I added a demonstration below)
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