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Today in class we started with a warm-up. The warm-up was, Why research? The answer to this warm-up is, you research to find information, to speak to other people intelligently, and to learn about the different reading rates such as scanning and scimming. Once we were done with warm-up we then moved on to reviewing the power outline. After we finished reviewing the outline, we moved on to making a thesis statement for our paper. In creating a thesis statement you need to have an interesting topic, the special part to emphasize, and then you need to come up with a thesis statement. Once you were done with creating one some of the kids then shared what they had written down.

My first attempt at the thesis statewment is:
Eating Disorders+ eating disorders are caused by stress and pressure from family and friends= By not taking on a lot of things that may cause pressure and not doing a lot of things that may cause stress, most eating disorders can be avoided.

If you do not understand how to write a thesis statement, you may refer to page 394 of your Write Source Book. Once you are done with your thesis statement, you moved on to thinking about what ou would write for the first sentence of your paper. The first sentence should either be an interesing fact, an interesting question, or an interesting quotation. If you are having trouble thinking of one of these you may refer to page 398 in your Write Source Book. Make sure that if you still don't understand it then ask one of your parents to explain it to you. Then if you still don't explain it you may ask Mrs. Abrams.

Once we finished thinking and writing down our first paragraph. Here is an example of how I wrote my firsh paragraph:
I started with the description of certain eating disorders, so this is how it may look: By not taking on a lot of tasks that may cause pressure and not doing a lot of things that may cause stress, most eating disorders can be avoided. There are two main eating disorders. They are Bulimia and Anorexia. Bulimia is a psychological eating disorder. Anorexia is an eating disorder where people starve themselves. Anorexia is when a lot of people refuse to eat. Bulimia is an emotional illness. It is also when individuals expieience frequent and uncontrollable periods of over eating. These eating disorders usually occur in girls between the ages of 12 and 18. Eating disorders are incresing in young children.
That is how your's should look. All I did was the description of eating disorders and when they occur.

We then moved on to reading our DEAR book(chapter book). We read silently for thirty minutes. Then we completed an entry in our reading log. Make sure that you have one written down!

Make sure that you have your fifty notecards done by tomorrow and you have at least 4 bibliography cards. On each notecard you need to have at the most two bullets on each one. You also need to make sure that you have your power outline either typed or written by tomorrow. You also need to make sure that you have your working outline done except for the last question. Also make sure that you have your anticipation giude done. Also make sure that you read for thirty minutes and complete an entry on your reading log.

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