Assignment: Due Thursday: Major progress on the paragraphs that support your thesis.
You must have drafts of all three paragraphs that go into the body of your paper.
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Here's some tips!
-The opening sentence of your first paragraph in your body should introduce your first support.
-The opening sentence of your second paragraph in your body should introduce your second support.
-The opening sentence of your third paragraph in your body should introduce your third support.
Read this example, taken from Lily's statement we worked on in class:
INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPH
In The Giver, Jonas is a boy who lives in such perfection, he begins to wonder if his utopia is, in fact, a dystopia. This realization comes once he receives memories that reflect a world that is the opposite of his own. Thus, Jonas's community proves to be a dystopia because of the lack of decision-making, color and emotion.
FIRST PARAGRAPH'S INTRO SENTENCE
Throughout the novel, there are many examples of the community relying on rules rather than making decisions on their own. One is seen in Chapter........
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SECOND PARAGRAPH'S INTRO SENTENCE
In addition to the inability to make decisions for himself, Jonas also experiences his dystopian society through the absence of color--an element in our world that creates much emotion.
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THIRD PARAGRAPH'S INTRO SENTENCE
The final piece of evidence that proves Jonas's world is not utopian is exhibited in the way no member of the community feels emotion.
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CONCLUSION
