TONIGHT’S HOMEWORK IS TO FINISH OFF YOUR ‘DIBS’ PARAGRAPH AND WRITE YOUR SECOND BODY PARAGRAPH READY FOR FRIDAY.
The key to a great essay is writing effective paragraphs. Today we looked at what we wrote about Dibs in response to this prompt:
‘In her attempt to improve Lyle’s ‘luck’, it is Dibs who destroys everything.’ Discuss.
We looked at writing topic sentences, then explaining what we said in our topic sentence, the need to back it up with evidence (quotes) and a finishing off/linking sentence. We looked at this sample paragraph:
One approach to writing a body paragraph is to use the ‘hamburger method’ (following):
