Finally, take one of your topic sentences, your sentences about the three rights you believe we should have (including details), and another of your topic sentences as a conclusion, and send them to me as a comment. This should make a 7-8 sentence paragraph. Today, I want you to write four topic sentences for the [...]
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Taking a Stand: Writing about Inalienable Rights
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Astronomy Lesson 4b: More Main Idea and Paraphrasing
You will do a Google search to find a resource, or go to one of these links. Find a paragraph to summarize or paraphrase (that means to put it in your own words and shorten it). Write what you learned in your own words You will also copy the URL (the link at the top) [...]
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Astronomy Lesson 4: Research – How to paraphrase
You will be learning an important lesson in research, how to put things into your own words, so you are not copying the words of others. This is important, because just copying is something called plagiarism, and can get you in a lot of trouble at school, and in life. Here is what you will [...]
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