11/14/2012

1. 11/14/2012 • Please have your four color pens (blue, red, green, and black) and a lined paper on your desk. • Find your writing notebook in the room. • If you were not here last year or do not have a writing folder, have lined paper out.

2. The Jane Schaffer Writing Program Day 1 Definitions Sample one-chunk paragraph

3. Terminology • Write “Terminology” for the title. • Copy each word and definition using the same color that I have used.

4. Topic Sentence(Blue Pen) • The first sentence in a body paragraph. This must have a subject and opinion (commentary) for the paragraph. It does the same thing for a body paragraph that the thesis does for the whole essay.

5. Concrete Detail (Red Pen) • Specific details that form the backbone or core of your body paragraphs. • Synonyms for concrete detail include facts, specifics, examples, descriptions, illustrations, support, proof, evidence, quotations, paraphrasing, or plot references.

6. Commentary(Green Pen) • Your opinion or comment about something; not concrete detail. • Synonyms include opinion, insight, analysis, interpretation, inference, personal response, feelings, evaluation, explications, and reflection.

7. Concluding Sentence(Blue Pen) • The last sentence in a body paragraph. It is all commentary, does not repeat key words, and gives a finished feeling to the paragraph.

8. Chunk • It is the smallest unified group of thoughts that you can write. • In Response to Literature, it is one sentence of concretedetailand two sentences ofcommentary sentence. • In Narrative, it is two concrete details and one commentary sentence. • In Persuasive, it is two concrete details and one commentary sentence.

9. Thesis Statement(Black Pen) • A sentence with a subject and opinion (also called commentary). • What your essay is about. • Answers the prompt. • This sentence is USUALLY the last sentence in the introduction paragraph.