One body paragraph, built
This week in one line: take the model paragraph apart, see its four moving parts, then build one of your own.
Pull one apart, then build one
You already have the lever from Week 3. This week the lever gets a home: the body paragraph. It has four parts, and every one of them has a job.
Say the lever back
Before we build, recall last week's move out loud: spot it, work out the effect, say so what.
- Nat gives you one quote from the bank
- You talk it through the three steps, no writing
Deconstruct, then build
First we read the model paragraph on the essay page, at the bottom of the Othello kit. Name what each sentence is doing.
- Find the four parts in the model (below)
- Notice the Analysis is the longest part. That is where the marks are
- Then open the practice page and build your own in the paragraph station
Rough day? Just deconstruct the model together and stop. The build can wait a week.
Say it back, set the phone task
Read your paragraph aloud. Then answer two questions:
- Which sentence is your Analysis?
- Does your last line reach back to the question?
This paragraph comes back
Keep what you write today. In Week 8 we take this exact paragraph and polish its craft with the sentence toolkit. You are not writing a throwaway exercise, you are building a piece you will improve.
One small thing, on your own
Reread your own paragraph
The day after our session, open the paragraph you wrote in the practice station and read it once, fresh. Then underline the one sentence doing the most work. Usually it is the analysis. If it is not, that tells you exactly what to grow next week.