Chapter 4-The Best Time to be Alive

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Chapter 4-The Best Time to be Alive

• Writing a five paragraph essay

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Freewriting

• Write for 10 minutes about the following topic
• If you could choose another time in history to
  visit, which time period would you choose? What
  country would you choose? What would you hope to
  discover?

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Point-of-View Writing

• Write a letter to a great-grandparent or another
  relative who lived in the past. Explain how life
  today is different from the way it was before.

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Writing Assignment

• Your task
• Choose one
• Write a five-paragraph essay (or prepare an
  outline) describing the best time or the worst
  time (past, present, or future) to be alive and
  why.
• Write a five-paragraph essay (or prepare an
  outline) explaining the reasons why you think we
  should study the past. Does the past teach us
  lessons for the future?

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Thesis Statement Creating Unity

• The thesis statement of an essay creates unity
• What is unity? An overarching idea.
• A good thesis statement is supported by the other
  ideas, explanations, and examples in the
  introduction, body paragraph(s), and conclusion.

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Topic Sentences Connecting the Body to the Thesis

• Topic Sentence is usually the first sentence of
  each body paragraph.
• Restates one of the ideas or reasons from the
  thesis statement.
• The rest of the paragraph describes the idea
  found in the topic sentence.
• Topic sentences connect the ideas in the body
  paragraphs to the thesis statement.

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Creating Coherence

• Coherence means that the ideas within and between
  paragraphs are logically organized.
• Logical Paragraph Order.

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Examples of Logical Paragraph Order

• Most important -gt Least Important
• Least important -gt Most important
• Oldest -gt Newest
• Least Personal -gt Most personal

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Peer Editing

1. Does the introduction begin with general ideas
   and end with a specific thesis statement?
2. Does your thesis statement give one central idea
   or opinion with reasons to support it?
3. Does each body paragraph begin with a topic
   sentence that relates to the thesis statement?
4. Do the body paragraphs follow in a logical order?
5. Are the explanations convincing in each body
   paragraph?
6. Does the conclusion summarize the main points of
   the essay?

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Adjective Clauses

• Adjective clauses short sentences -gt longer
  complex sentences
• Immediately follows the noun it defines.
• The Shogun was a military leader. The Shogun
  ruled feudal Japan.
• The Shogun was a military leader who ruled feudal
  Japan (adjective clause).

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Forming Adjective Clauses

• People Who or that
• Samurai Warriors were men who/that protected
  Japanese lords.
• Things That or Which
• They had a special code of honor that/which was
  made for them.
• Places where, that, or which
• Hangzhou was a resort town where/that/which
  people went to relax.
• Time or period when or in which
• The Ming dynasty was a time when/in which people
  prospered.

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Present Unreal Conditionals

• Describe a situation that has never happened and
  can never happen.
• If simple past conditional (wouldbase form)
• If I lived in the future, I would reside on the
  planet Mars.
• If I lived in the future, I would be able to see
  how the world resolves its problems.