Write a paragraph based on the CLAIM-EVIDENCE-COMMENTARY method. Follow the example paragraph on the Anne Bradstreet poem “Here Follows Some Verses on The Burning of Our House.” (You don’t need to color-code yours.)
- Use a T-A-G sentence as the first sentence of your paragraph . It will orient your reader to the poem that you will be discussing.
- The T-A-G sentence should also make a claim about the poem you will discuss.
- Support your claim with at least 3 pieces of evidence from the poem.
- Use the claim, evidence, commentary style of writing.
- Try to introduce quotes in at least TWO different ways (signal phrases, stand-alone sentences, or blended quotes. See the earlier teaching material in this module).
- Finish your paragraph with a concluding sentence that wraps up or brings the paragraph to a close.
A Letter to her Husband, absent upon Publick employment