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Rebecca Schnoor Dr. Guenzel ENC 1101-0107 10 September 2013 Literacy Narrative: Dance. Intro Paragraph. 6 major lessons dance has taught me Respect Discipline Time management Coping with Stress Growth Love Topic Sentence
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Rebecca Schnoor Dr. Guenzel ENC 1101-0107 10 September 2013 Literacy Narrative: Dance
Intro Paragraph • 6 major lessons dance has taught me • Respect • Discipline • Time management • Coping with Stress • Growth • Love • Topic Sentence • Over the years, dance has become more than just a hobby, it has become a way of life, the lessons it has taught me have made an immense impact on the person I am today.
Body Paragraph 1 • Time Span: 1998-2003 • Lesson • Respect • Discipline • Claim • Dance taught me the meaning of both respect and discipline at a young age • Topic Sentence • When we were young we tried out several different activities in order to find our niche, at the age of three I found dance.
Body Paragraph 2 • Time Span 2004-2008 • Lesson • Time Management • Claim • Through dance, I learned how to balance school work, after school activities and friends. • Topic Sentence • Time management is typically something stressed by teachers in school but when you have dance combined with homework and projects, you learn sooner rather than later the value of balancing your time.
Body Paragraph 3 • Time Span 2008-2011 • Lesson • Coping with Stress • Claim • Having to deal with an injury and the work load of high school posed as a challenge but dance helped me through it all • Topic Sentence • As if being a teenager didn’t come with its own struggles, several new obstacles were about to be thrown my way.
Body Paragraph 4 • Time Span: 2011-Present • Lesson • Growth • Love • Claim • Dance has helped me grow as an individual and realize the value of friendship • Topic Sentence • You meet several people throughout your life, but spending day in and day out with the same group of girls from dance for the past 14 years can truly teach you a lot. • Quote • “How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard” A.A Milne
Conclusion • Restate 6 Lessons • Respect • Discipline • Time Management • Coping with Stress • Growth • Love • Topic Sentence • Of all the things I have done in life, the most meaningful and rewarding has been dance. • Claim • Dance has shaped me into the person I am today and without is acting as my literary sponsor I would not have learned all that I have