EF5/6 paragraph process, example paragraph

paragraphs
narrative
descriptive
expository/process

academic-style paragraph - high school, college

Topic sentence
Body- 3,4,5 support sentences, evidence, proof, examples
Concluding sentence


"Why My Mother Can't Speak English"
3. What are some reasons the mother didn't learn to speak English?"

WRITING PROCESS
PREWRITING
1. Analyze the question
2. Generate ideas - from the text 
BRAINSTORMING TOGETHER
PRIMING THE PUMP

1. working in kitchen every day, 12 hour days, 25 years, no time, too busy, probably tired, her focus was on survival not education
2. husband didn't want her to learn English, husband doesn't respect white women, afraid she become independent, maybe leave, he wanted to control her
3. change her Chinese soul, confusing hard to understand, stressed in the text, maybe she was close-minded, old-fashioned, stubborn, change perspective, fears change,


3. Organize
TIME SPACE IMPORTANCE

WRITING
4. Rough copy
Question/ Writing prompt: "What are some reasons the mother didn't learn to speak English?"

Topic sentence: one sentence, on topic
mirror key vocab from the writing prompt
"The narrator's mother choose to not/did not learn English when she was young for three/several main/major/important reasons."
FANCY VOCAB "The mother's decision to not learn English was predicated on a few/several/three main/important/key/crucial factors."
We can make the TS as simple or as fancy as we like.
"The mother's decision to not learn English reflects the realities of her life as a young woman."
"The mother's decision to not learn English made her life as an older woman much harder." off-topic

Rough copy

Question/ Writing prompt: "What are some reasons the mother didn't learn to speak English?"

Topic sentence:

"The narrator's mother choose to not/did not learn English when she was young for three/several main/major/important reasons."

"The mother's decision to not learn English was predicated on a few/several/three main/important/key/crucial factors."

"The mother's decision to not learn English reflects the realities of her life as a young woman."

IDEAS into SENTENCES – Remember sentences types: SIMPLE, COMPOUND, COMPLEX, COMPOUND-COMPLEX

1. working in kitchen every day, 12 hour days, 25 years, no time, too busy, probably tired, her focus was on survival not education

First/ Firstly/First of all/ To begin with,  One reason is she was working in the kitchen of the restaurant all day everyday. Therefore, she probably didn’t have any time to study because she would have been tired/exhausted / worn out at the end of the day. Her focus was on making money for her family, not improving her education.

Not only did working all day make her exhausted, but also she would have found no time to go to school for English.

2. husband didn't want her to learn English, husband doesn't respect white women, afraid she become independent, maybe leave, he wanted to control her

Also, her husband didn’t want her to learn English because he wanted to control her.

Secondly,

Second,

3. change her Chinese soul, confusing hard to understand, stressed in the text, maybe she was close-minded, old-fashioned, stubborn, change perspective, fears change

Finally/Most importantly/Last but not least/The final important reason is.../

Concluding sentence:

Restate the TS "The narrator's mother choose to not/did not learn English when she was young for three/several main/major/important reasons."

RESTATE "There are several major reasons that made the author’s mother decide not to learn English."

AVOID STATEMENTS THAT ARE OFF-TOPIC

“We must all do our best in the world.” XXX

5. EDIT
6. PASS IT IN