2025 BODY PARAGRAPHS

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Across
  1. 4. What type of words must be ELIMINATED from the body paragraph?
  2. 5. 3 WORD ANSWER A student's UNDER THE ICEBERG interpretations, explanations, inferences and analysis about how and why the textual evidence PROVES the theme.
  3. 7. A topic sentence gives the body paragraph a clear _______for the critical thinking students will write of the body paragraph.
  4. 8. 3 WORD ANSWER: The paraphrased textual evidence that students write in their own words AFTER the topic sentence and BEFORE a properly cited direct quote.
  5. 10. 2 WORD ANSWER: The context gives essay readers information about the characters, plot, and conflicts that connect to and are _______ _________ to the thesis and reason, and sets up the student writer's direct quote.
  6. 11. 3 WORD ANSWER Restates the paragraph's main idea (from the topic sentence) in a new way, summarizing the supporting evidence presented in the body of the paragraph and leaving the essay's reader with a new understanding, perspective, idea, or question.
Down
  1. 1. 3 word answer What is one of the phrases students should ELIMINATE when introducing a direct quote?
  2. 2. 2 WORD ANSWER: Paraphrased textual evidence must be ______ (correct) and _____ (brief)
  3. 3. 2 words answer: Direct Quotes must be _____ ____.
  4. 6. The first sentence of a body paragraph that is made up of the theme and ONE of the THREE reasons from the THESIS STATEMENT.
  5. 9. The topic sentence is made up of the ____ and one of the three ______ from the thesis statement.