Let's look together at an example paragraph before we start writing our own.
“Nasreen’s Secret School” by Jeanette Winter is a story about a girl names Nasreen who lives in Herat, Afghanistan, with her grandmother during a time when girls were not allowed to go to school or go outside alone. It teaches us that some people will take dangerous risks to go to school because learning is very important to them. The text conveys this by describing how Nasreen’s grandmother takes her to a school that is secret because girls aren’t allowed to go to school. It also explains how they hurried to the school because women and girls were forbidden from going outside alone, and explains they were lucky that no soldiers saw them. All of these details emphasize the danger that Nasreen and her grandmother put themselves in for her to go to school and convey how important school and education were to them both to take such big risks.
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Detail 2 from the text | arrow_right_alt | “Nasreen’s Secret School” by Jeanette Winter is a story about a girl names Nasreen who lives in Herat, Afghanistan, with her grandmother during a time when girls were not allowed to go to school or go outside alone |
Introduction (Title and Author) | arrow_right_alt | It teaches us that some people will take dangerous risks to go to school because learning is very important to them. |
Concluding sentence: restate the lesson | arrow_right_alt | The text conveys this by describing how Nasreen’s grandmother takes her to a school that is secret because girls aren’t allowed to go to school. |
Detail 1 from the text | arrow_right_alt | It also explains how they hurried to the school because women and girls were forbidden from going outside alone, and explains they were lucky that no soldiers saw them. |
Topic Sentence: Lesson of the story | arrow_right_alt | All of these details emphasize the danger that Nasreen and her grandmother put themselves in for her to go to school and convey how important school and education were to them both to take such big risks. |
Introduction (Title and Author). Write an introduction sentence about More than Anything Else just like the one above.
Topic Sentence: Lesson of the story. Write a sentence telling your readers what lesson Booker learned in the story.
Detail 1 from the text. What would be a good detail from the text? Write a sentence telling your reader a detail from the text that supports the theme.
Detail 2 from the text. What would be another good detail from the text? Write a sentence telling your reader a detail from the text that supports the theme.
Concluding sentence: restate the lesson. Tell your readers how these details prove the lesson.