4: Develop fully developed paragraphs LG’s 4: Develop fully developed paragraphs 3: Find individual phrases and explain how they relate to your topic sentence.

Paragraphs Look at your main claim. What scenes do you need to use to support the main claim? Choose 3. Each scene will become the source for its own paragraph. That means you will have three body paragraphs.

First paragraph Use the first scene. Topic sentence Go in chronological scene—use the scene that appears first in the story. Topic sentence How does this scene support your main claim? The answer to this question becomes your topic sentence. Use a subordinating conjunction in this sentence. Find 5 quotes in the scene that you can use to support the topic sentence. Quotes should not be entire sentences. Just 3 or 4 words of a line. Focus on the most important word or words in a line. For each line, write one or two sentences that explain how those lines support your topic sentence. Write a concluding sentence that reiterates ties the evidence to the topic sentence.

Do the same for the other scenes.