September 20th -- Focus on Thesis

Today we continued our study on the introduction with a focus on thesis sentences.  A thesis sentence is the spot where you share your opinion (without saying "I think" or "Yes, because" or "No, because") and a brief overview of your reasons why you feel this way.  Here's are some examples: 

For:

Area fast food restaurants should be called upon to take turns providing student lunches so that more students will eat lunch, the school will increase its profit margin for lunches, and students will feel like the school truly cares about their happiness.

Against:

Because of the increase in teen obesity, the money lost by the school district, and the health code violations incurred by our area fast food restaurants, our school should not allow fast food restaurants to take over school lunches.

We are working on another on-demand prompt in baby steps, so today we wrote just the introduction to a prompt entitled "Johnny Knoxville and MTV."  See  me if you need a copy.

Just the composition notebook page for entry #9 (books will be due on Friday), and don't forget to read at home, fill out reading log, and complete reader response #5 (due next Tuesday).