Persuasive Vocabulary Part II

What is research?

• Finding answers to your questions
• Finding a key in a purse
• Finding the code to Google Classroom

What is a thesis statement?

• A research about cats in English class.
• a statement that someone wants to discuss or prove
• The 95 Theses of Martin Luther.

What are the three parts of a thesis statement?

• Purpose, Audience, Form, and Topic
• Tomatoes, Potatoes and Pistachios
• Topic, Opinion, and 3 Reasons

What is evidence?

• facts, documentation or testimony used to strengthen a claim, support an argument or reach a conclusion
• Interesting information about English 11 and English 12.
• Information about the different continents and the different oceans.

What is paraphrase? 

• Changing classes at the end of the year.
• Capitalizing names, and beginning of sentences
• Putting periods at the end of sentences.
• Putting something written or spoken in your own words.

What is the definition of support?

• to provide evidence for (something) : to help show that (something) is true
• to sing the best music in church with friends and family
• to dance in a party with your best friend

What is a paragraph?

• Letters and words describing tone.
• A piece of chocolate cake.
• A piece of writing or collection of related sentences dealing with a single topic.

what is an essay?

• the character of a fairytale
• a piece of letter for a special person
• a group of sentences about an evidence
• a short piece of writing on a particular subject.  
  

What is a question?

• A sentence worded or expressed so as to elicit information.
• A sentence expressing feeling.
• A sentence at the beginning of a paragraph.

What is the definition of response?

• something special like a heart
• something round like the moon
• something that is said or written as a reply to something