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Essay Writing

Lesson 3

• Aim of lesson: Student can formulate a thesis statement using subject, claim and support.

• - Assignment p. 8: Thesis Throwdown

• - Homework: come up with a thesis statement for assignment 1 p. 24

Thesis Throwdown

• Should literature be taught in secondary schools?

• -> 5 minutes to come up with your own thesis statement

• -> 5 minutes to discuss with your group and come up with the best thesis statement.

• -> 1 minute to write down your group’s thesis statement on a separate piece of paper.

Second Throwdown

• Should parents limit how much time children spend on tech devices?

• Come up with a thesis statement individually (5 minutes)

• Read each other’s statements and pick the best of your group.

Homework

• Read the essay assignment on p. 24

• Come up with a thesis statement and write it in your notebook.

Thesis Statements

• Literature should not be taught to secondary school students

• Because it doesn’t teach them practical skills, it’s not a part of the English exam, and it doesn’t interest students.

• Literature should be taught in secondary school, because it is good for a student’s development, it is an important part of a language and it prepares them for difficult texts at university.

Thesis Statement and Topic Sentence

• Students know how to write a topic sentence

• New laws do not need to tackle global megaphone for gossip, because it is good that people can give their opinion and it won’t work to tackle untraceable sources on the Internet.

• There need to be new laws to civilize the Internet, because the Internet is not meant to gossip, people are being hurt by the exposure of private information and the people who use websites think less about the consequenses of what they are posting.