Edwards Body Paragraph Outline

To make sure you get all of the steps needed for quality analysis, I am posting an outline of what an Edwards Body Paragraph should do. Please note that you will need to do all steps within your paragraph, but that each step will probably be more than one sentence-especially the how step. This is a single paragraph, so it should look like a single paragraph on your paper.

I've reprinted the prompt for your assignment below in case you need it.

Edwards Introduction and Body Paragraph


Using the format provided in Part I of your “Musings” packument, write an introduction and body paragraph on “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”


Thesis Ideas: Edwards creates fear in the audience. The purpose of this fear is to ________________________.


POA: Edwards uses imagery, structure, and rhetoric.


Your body paragraph will focus on the discussion of his use of imagery.

Additional Grammar Practice

If you are looking for more grammar practice, please go to the Sprague Writing Center webpage to practice what you need. Please note the topics listed on the left hand side. If you select one of those topics for more information, there will be information and explanations on the right, and then a link to practice exercises and examples on the left.

Due Tuesday

Please identify the sentences on the worksheet below as either simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex. Print (or hand write if your printer is not working) and bring to class completed.


Sentence Structure Practice

Due Friday

Read "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (70-73). Pay careful attention to Edwards' use of figurative language and imagery and how they help him achieve the purpose of his text.

Due Thursday

Read Cotton Mather's "Wonders of the Invisible World" (75-78). Please create a S.O.A.P.S. chart that you will turn in tomorrow as homework. Under the "Speaker" category, please provide two inferences about the speaker with a quotation that supports each. You may want one of them to address the issue of speaker bias.

Due Wednesday

Based on your notes today in class, please print and complete this parts of speech practice worksheet.

Assignment Info

Due Wednesday:

Please complete the practice exercise below and bring it to class tomorrow so we can discuss it:

1. To what extent is the 7 period day schedule an effective schedule?

a. thesis/antithesis/POA statement
b. first sentence of antithesis paragraph
c. first sentence of first thesis paragraph.


Due Thursday:

Antithesis/Thesis Practice Writing Assignment

Step 1: Select a topic of your choice that you would like to write practice antithesis/thesis paragraphs with. You might consider something from:
 Music
 Movies
 Politics/Policy
 Food
 Hobbies, Sports, activities
 (Anything else that interests you—if you’re unsure about your topic, check with me first)

Step 2: Following the guidelines in the “Musings” packet, write an Antithesis/Thesis statement with 2 POA points. Remember to focus on the concept of opposing, not just opposite. (Note that you’re not writing an entire introduction, just the antithesis/thesis).

Step 3: Write a corresponding antithesis paragraph. Make sure to remember your qualifying transition. You should have 3 pieces of evidence to support your antithesis paragraph and use standard paragraph format.

Step 4: Write a corresponding thesis paragraph. Make sure to use an appropriate contrasting transition word that acknowledges your antithesis, and clearly state your thesis and POA point. You should have 3 pieces of evidence and use standard paragraph format.

Step 5: Proof read your paragraphs, checking for conventions errors, and making sure that you match the structure given to you in the packet.


Due Friday:

Read "The General History of Virginia" (42-47)
Read "Of Plymouth Plantation" (50-54)

Due Monday

Please read Part II of the "Musings" packet. Again, I apologize that they haven't come back from print yet, so please use the links provided in the previous post.

Due Friday, 9/5

Please read and study Part I of the "Musings" packet. Remember, you will have a copy given to you as soon as it comes back from print. I will make it accessible below as a PDF and a Word Document.

PDF
Word

Due Thursday, 9/4

Humanities Writing Pre-Test


Imagine you are writing an essay on one of the following topics:

1. Why is the study of past events (history) important in a world that is focused so much on the present and future developments?

2. Why is the study of past writing (literature) important in a world that seemingly places little emphasis on this medium of expression?

Now, the assignment:

Write an introduction and a body paragraph that address ONE of these topics. Set up your introduction as if you were writing the entire essay, but you, of course, will just be writing one body paragraph.

Please use this as an opportunity to show off your best writing in terms of vocabulary, structure, organization, and ideas. I understand that this is essentially a ‘first draft’ and has not undergone a lengthy revision process, but you should proof read for conventions.

Please type in 12-point font unless you are currently without access to a computer/printer. If that's the case, hand write neatly in pen.


Due tomorrow!