The Perfect BODY Paragraph

Multiple Choice

What is a topic sentence?

AKA: TS

• A mildly controversial statement that you will be proving with your writing

• A sentence that concludes the paragraph

• A sentence that hooks the reader's' attention

• A rhetorical question designed to gain the reader's interest

Multiple Choice

Concrete Details (CDs) are.....

• embedded facts, quotes, or details that prove your hook

• embedded facts, quotes, or details that prove your bridge

• embedded facts, quotes, or details that prove your topic sentence

• embedded facts, quotes, or details that prove your concluding sentence

Multiple Choice

Providing context for your Concrete Detail involves answering three questions before you introduce your quote.

What three questions should be answered?

• What's going on in the story or article that helps readers understand what's happening in a story?

  (Plot clue)

• Who is saying it?

  (Speaker)

• Who are they saying it to?

  (Listener)

• What's going on in your life this week?

  (Personal contex)

SPEAKER

LISTENER

PLOT CLUE

Multiple Select

Commentary sentences (CMs) are NOT........

Choose the three answers that apply

• Your summary of the story or article

• Information you found online

• A.I. Generated statements that you don't even understand

• Your opinion about how this quote helps support your topic sentence

• Your insight about how this quote helps support your topic sentence

Multiple Select

What is Commentary? (CMs)

Choose all that apply

• Your analysis about how this quote helps support your topic sentence

• Your interpretation about how this quote helps support your topic sentence

• Your explanation about how this quote helps support your topic sentence

• Your opinion about how this quote helps support your topic sentence

• Your insight about how this quote helps support your topic sentence

Multiple Choice

Why do we use a second concrete detail? (CD)

Select all that apply

• to provide more proof that supports your topic sentence

• to help prove your point

• to convince readers that your claim is well-researched

• to convince readers that your claim is valid

Multiple Choice

What are the three purposes of a concluding statement?

• wraps up the paragraph

• leaves the reader with something to think about

• transition ideas from body paragraph 1 to body paragraph 2

• to tell your readers goodbye and you're glad that they read your essay

Open Ended

List each part of the 8-sentence body paragraph.

You may use the abbreviations or the actual term (AKA commentary).

Please press enter between each item that you list.