Transcript WORKOUT #6 Develop a Paragraph WRITING WORKOUTS Brought to you by: Academic Success Center Funded by: US Dept of Education, Title V-HSI.

WORKOUT #6
Develop a Paragraph
WRITING WORKOUTS
Brought to you by: Academic Success Center
Funded by: US Dept of Education, Title V-HSI
Topic:_______________________________
Thesis:______________________________
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Intro
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Reason 1 (Body Paragraph)
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Reason 2 (Body Paragraph)
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Reason 3/counterpoint (Body Paragraph)
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Conclusion
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THESIS
Develop a Paragraph
THESIS
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THESIS
Model Body Paragraph
Even though collies are beautiful dogs, they are also known to be protectors.
They seldom harm other animals and often turn guardian of their charges. They
have been know to protect small children and other pets and can keep them
from being harmed. When someone tries to commit a crime against the owners,
collies come to the rescue. For example, when Charlie was a child, he had a
collie named Sally that often helped catch loose rabbits when they got out of
their cages. One evening, she barked at the back door until someone came. She
had found a baby rabbit who had fallen out of the wire cage, had picked it up
gently in her mouth, and had brought it to the house unharmed. Another time,
when a strange man tried to break into the house, she positioned herself
between the family members and the stranger. Baring her teeth and growling
deeply, she stopped him. The family always felt everything was under control as
long as they had their “best friend.”
Model Body Paragraph
Slave spirituals often had hidden double meanings. On one level, spirituals
referenced heaven, Jesus, and the soul, but on another level, the songs spoke
about slave resistance. For example, according to Frederick Douglass, the song
"O Canaan, Sweet Canaan" spoke of slaves' longing for heaven, but it also
expressed their desire to escape to the North. Careful listeners heard this
second meaning in the following lyrics: "I don't expect to stay / Much longer
here. / Run to Jesus, shun the danger. / I don't expect to stay." When slaves
sang this song, they could have been speaking of their departure from this life
and their arrival in heaven; however, they also could have been describing their
plans to leave the South and run, not to Jesus, but to the North. Slaves even
used songs like "Steal Away to Jesus (at midnight)" to announce to other slaves
the time and place of secret, forbidden meetings. What whites heard as merely
spiritual songs, slaves discerned as detailed messages. The hidden meanings in
spirituals allowed slaves to sing what they could not say.