Newspaper Article #3 Planning and Rough Draft

Monday:

Read the prompt below and write a hook, transition sentence, and thesis. brainstorm one example per HELPS for each of your reasons that you could use to support your stance.

Informational Essay Prompt = Cause and Effect
“The medical advances of the Twentieth Century have many beneficial effects for humanity.”

Prompt: Think about an important medical breakthrough.
How has the discovery/invention of __________________ affected society?

Paragraph 1

Hook:

Transition sentence:

Write thesis (restate prompt + 2 reasons):

DIRECTIONS: use a computer to find examples with LOTS of details for the HELPS chart to support the above prompt. You must have AT LEAST 3 examples for each reason in your thesis (total of 6).

H
Historical Examples

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E
Everyday News - Current Events

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L
Literature/ Magazines/ Movies/ TV Shows

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P
Person you know / Personal Experience

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S
Sports / Science

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Tuesday:

Use the “Description” text structure to write your essay. Plan which HELPS best support your thesis and where they will be in your essay. Use an outline or the shapes tool to create the graphic organizer here.

Example:

Outline Template
I. Cause
A. Effect (reason 1)
i. Support (HELPS)
ii. Support (HELPS)
II. Cause
A. Effect (reason 2)
i. Support (HELPS)
ii. Support (HELPS)

Wednesday:

Continuing to use your organizer above, draft your 2nd body paragraph (paragraph 3). Remember, in your 2nd body paragraph, focus on the 2nd of your two reasons from your thesis statement and use HELPS to support it.

You will also write your conclusion (paragraph 4). Your conclusion should remind your reader of your points without repeating the information and should include a reworded thesis statement.

Thursday:

Today you will put together all of your four drafted paragraphs into one solid article below. You will then use your ARMS and CUPS checklist and tasks below to revise and edit your article.

Copy and paste your full article here:

ARMS and CUPS:
1. Highlight in yellow a sentence/word you added.
2. Highlight in blue a sentence/word you need to remove.
3. Highlight in green a sentence/word you need to move.
4. Highlight in pink a sentence/word that you need to substitute.
5. Highlight in purple word(s) that you need to add capital letters to.
6. Highlight in dark blue words that are used too much and need to be replaced.
7. Highlight in grey where punctuation marks need to be added.
8. Highlight in teal words that need to be spelled correctly.

Friday:

You will follow the directions in your newspaper template PowerPoint to add your second article to your newspaper.