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Composing Body Paragraphs

Composing Body Paragraphs. Topic Sentence. A topic sentence identifies the focus of the individual paragraph and connects to the main idea identified in the thesis statement. In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, three conflicts cause Cherry Valance to change her mind about stereotypes.

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Composing Body Paragraphs

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  1. Composing Body Paragraphs

  2. Topic Sentence • A topic sentence identifies the focus of the individual paragraph and connects to the main idea identified in the thesis statement

  3. In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, three conflicts cause Cherry Valance to change her mind about stereotypes. Topic Sentence 1: In the beginning of The Outsiders, Cherry accepts that the Socs and the greasers are different people who just don’t mix, but a conflict with Dally helps to change her mind.

  4. Evidence • Begin with the context to introduce your evidence. • Should be a specific example or quote from the text. • Include the page number of a quote after the quotation mark in parentheses.

  5. Commentary • Link the evidence to the topic sentence.

  6. Topic Sentence context quote/example commentary context quote/example commentary context quote/example commentary

  7. In the beginning of The Outsiders, Cherry accepts that the Socs and the greasers are very different people who just don’t mix, but a conflict with Dally helps to change her mind. When she meets Ponyboy at the movies, she asks, “What’s a nice, smart kid like you running around with trash like that for?” (23). She’s surprised to find out that a greaser could be anything other than a rough, dangerous hood. But when Johnny and Ponyboy stand up to Dally for her, she says, “You two are too sweet to scare anyone” (26). Cherry is beginning to question the greaser stereotype. When she finds out about Johnny’s painful encounter with the Socs, she is visibly upset. She tells Ponyboy, “All Socs aren’t like that. You have to believe me, Ponyboy. Not all of us are like that”(35). Cherry is starting to realize that both the Socs and the greasers are unfairly stereotyped by each other.

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