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Chapter 4-The Best Time to be Alive

Chapter 4-The Best Time to be Alive. Writing a five paragraph essay. Freewriting. Write for 10 minutes about the following topic: If you could choose another time in history to visit, which time period would you choose? What country would you choose? What would you hope to discover?.

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Chapter 4-The Best Time to be Alive

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  1. Chapter 4-The Best Time to be Alive Writing a five paragraph essay

  2. Freewriting Write for 10 minutes about the following topic: If you could choose another time in history to visit, which time period would you choose? What country would you choose? What would you hope to discover?

  3. Point-of-View Writing Write a letter to a great-grandparent or another relative who lived in the past. Explain how life today is different from the way it was before.

  4. Writing Assignment Your task: Choose one • Write a five-paragraph essay (or prepare an outline) describing the best time or the worst time (past, present, or future) to be alive and why. • Write a five-paragraph essay (or prepare an outline) explaining the reasons why you think we should study the past. Does the past teach us lessons for the future?

  5. Thesis Statement: Creating Unity • The thesis statement of an essay creates unity • What is unity? An overarching idea. • A good thesis statement is supported by the other ideas, explanations, and examples in the introduction, body paragraph(s), and conclusion.

  6. Topic Sentences: Connecting the Body to the Thesis • Topic Sentence is usually the first sentence of each body paragraph. • Restates one of the ideas or reasons from the thesis statement. • The rest of the paragraph describes the idea found in the topic sentence. • Topic sentences connect the ideas in the body paragraphs to the thesis statement.

  7. Creating Coherence • Coherence means that the ideas within and between paragraphs are logically organized. • Logical Paragraph Order.

  8. Examples of Logical Paragraph Order • Most important -> Least Important • Least important -> Most important • Oldest -> Newest • Least Personal -> Most personal

  9. Peer Editing • Does the introduction begin with general ideas and end with a specific thesis statement? • Does your thesis statement give one central idea or opinion with reasons to support it? • Does each body paragraph begin with a topic sentence that relates to the thesis statement? • Do the body paragraphs follow in a logical order? • Are the explanations convincing in each body paragraph? • Does the conclusion summarize the main points of the essay?

  10. Adjective Clauses • Adjective clauses= short sentences -> longer complex sentences • Immediately follows the noun it defines. The Shogun was a military leader. The Shogun ruled feudal Japan. The Shogun was a military leaderwho ruled feudal Japan (adjective clause).

  11. Forming Adjective Clauses • People+ Who or that Samurai Warriors were men who/that protected Japanese lords. • Things+ That or Which They had a special code of honor that/which was made for them. • Places+ where, that, or which Hangzhou was a resort town where/that/which people went to relax. • Time or period + when or in which The Ming dynasty was a time when/in which people prospered.

  12. Present Unreal Conditionals • Describe a situation that has never happened and can never happen. • If+ simple past+ conditional (would+base form) If I lived in the future, I would reside on the planet Mars. If I lived in the future, I would be able to see how the world resolves its problems.

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