Paragraph Writing Practice- Putting it together

After practicing Chunk Writing with direct quotes and commentary from our reading in class, I have students complete practice paragraphs. I use the below model:

Make sure to provide a prompt that can easily lend to a topic sentence.

Below is a mini-lesson from Ayn Rand's "Anthem" after reading Chapter 1-2 as an example when using the hand-out above. 

1. Provide the following prompt on the board
   
2. Write the following sentence starter on the board: "Equality does/does not accept the moral teachings of his society because (reason 1).
3. Discuss how this sentence starter is a topic sentence and was pulled from the prompt itself.
4. Below is a student sample I re-typed to demonstrate.
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    Next, instruct students to pull a direct quote or paraphrase an example from the book for their Concrete Detail. Make sure they include the correct in-text citation.
   
   
   
   
6. Instruct students to explain their concrete detail. 
   
7. Instruct students to tell why this is important.
   
8. Instruct students to write their closing sentence. Make sure to stress not closing with a quote. This sentence must tie up and conclude.
   
9. Once students have completed the above steps. Instruct them to re-write the above in paragraph form. If time allows, instruct students to highlight and identify the different parts of the paragraph.