Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Building body paragraphs from thesis

During our bad ad essay, I supplied questions for you to answer for each body paragraph. If you have a strong thesis, however, the information of your body paragraphs should already be suggested.

Thesis: In the film, the characters who are fickle, hesitant, or simply unwilling to recognize the seriousness of jury duty are considered weak jurors.


Body paragraph topic sentence: 



           Throughout the movie, the characters who are fickle, or easily persuaded, can be considered weak jurors. For example, when Juror #12. . . 


       

Then I would explain why Juror #12's actions are a threat to democracy or justice. 

If this were a full length paragraph, I would then need another example along with an explanation.




YOUR TASK:


1. Write three body paragraph topic sentences


2. Provide only ONE example per body paragraph--this means you will need to discuss one of the juror's from the 
film and share a particular scene that illustrates the personality trait stated in the topic sentence

3. Then provide an explanation of how their behavior makes them a good, bad, or weak juror (depending on your 
thesis statement)



HW: Please complete the above task for homework. Please bring your intros and "body paragraph segments" to class tomorrow

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