homework

Body Paragraph Worksheet

In this worksheet, you will be writing one of your body paragraphs based on the

assigned Bible story from the class.

Thesis

Statement

(End of

Introduction.)

Thesis pattern: [Biblical passage] demonstrates/reveals/illustrates

+ [BIG IMPRESSION] + through the following

events/characters (choose one): 1, 2, and 3 (roadmap).

Write your thesis here =>

Body Paragraph Pattern

Assertion State what the paragraph will discuss with Big impression

(Thesis Key word) and Paragraph Key word (character/event)

from the roadmap.

Yours:

Explanation Trans. (In more detail, More specifically, In other words)

Explain the assertion in more detail, focusing on the Paragraph

Key word in one sentence.

Yours:

Evidence 1 Trans. (In the book of […] /In the passage/text, + context +

“quote”)

Provide a “quote” of the text that includes words that are

meaningful to the big impression. (Citation needed).

Yours:

Discussion 1 Trans. (Clearly; This indicates that; It is clear that; In other

words)

Explain how the quotation is meaningful focusing on key words

from the text and explain how the words are connected to the

assertion and big impression (Thesis key word).

Yours:

Evidence 2 In addition,/Moreover, in the book of […], context + “quote”

Provide another “quote” that explains your big impression. The

evidence should be from the same bible story, not from other

stories (Citation needed).

Yours:

Discussion 2 Transition word/phrase (Clearly, This

suggests/reveals/means/highlights that, For this reason, With this

in mind,)

Explain how the quotation/evidence connects with your big

impression (Thesis Key word) highlighting some key words from

the text and explain how it proves the assertion.

Yours:

Connection Trans. (Therefore/Thus/Hence)

Using Big impression (Thesis Key word) and the same Paragraph

Key word (character/event) from the roadmap, summarize how

the paragraph proved the assertion/thesis in one sentence.

Yours: