Monday 9/20/10

Today we worked on writing the introduction portion of the paper.  Generally this first paragraph needs to set the context of time and explain events that led up to the topic.  the topic should not be introduced until the last 1-2 sentences of the paragraph.  Many of you struggled since you wanted to immediately tell us the juicy details of the topic. Remember think of your audience as a friend who doesn't know much about the time period and try to include information that would make the topic make more sense to him/her. Check out the sample in the "Connections Class of 2015" folder in the locker on my website.  Your homework is to have a "final" rough draft of your introduction written neatly on a loose-leaf sheet of paper.  Be sure to skip lines so you can more easily make revisions as they are suggested.