Five Themes Paragraph

Overview You will be writing a paragraph applying three of the five themes of Geography to Montrose In the following steps, you will be outlining this paragraph and checking your work with your partner

Step 1: Themes Pick three of the Themes of Geography to work with Write a definition for each of these themes Check with your partner to make sure you got the definitions right and understand them

Step 2: Examples For each of the three themes, write down one thing about Montrose These are your examples Check with your partner to make sure that these are correct, detailed, and that they fit the theme

Step 3: Thesis Come up with a single statement that describes how the three themes of Geography can be applied to Montrose This will be your thesis Check this with your partner

Step 4: Topic Sentence and Conclusion Take your thesis and add something to it to make it sound interesting and to make people want to read your paper Ask an interesting questions, put something interesting about Montrose, etc. This is your Topic Sentence Take your thesis and add something to it to expand on your paper and leave people thinking Relate Montrose to other places, ask an interesting question, etc. This is your Conclusion

Step 5: Put it all together Your paragraph should go in the following order: Topic Sentence First Theme with definition Example Second Theme with definition Third Theme with definition Conclusion

Step 6: Peer Editing Trade papers with somebody other than the partner that you have been working with Check each others papers for all of the following: A good topic sentence Tries to grab the reader’s attention and contains a thesis Three good themes with definitions Good examples for each theme A good conclusion Restates the thesis and expands on the paragraph Grammar and style No structural problems, no spelling errors, everything makes sense, no first person, no contractions, no slang You have to either find three things that your partner needs to fix or write a paragraph explaining why your partner’s paper is so good

Step 7: Final Draft Your final draft is due on Monday, 8/26