I thought the main point of this chapter was especially exciting. I would never have thought that to get students interested in writing an essay to have them read someone elses. It was amazing to me that something so simple is really all that it could take to not only have them see what an essay should include, but how meanings and thesises can be hidden until the end or not exactly expressed but an implied meaning throughout the work.
As far as having the kids pull newspaper clips to get them intereseted in a persausive essay, I thought that was a really good idea because then if they want to try and say that they don't know what to write about, you can have them pull out the articles they took and tell them to write about that.
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