As with the "My Room" example, the "My
Sister" gives us the Invention step and sets up the
Arrangement and Style steps. Since you won't deliver your
writing as a speech, you don't need to worry about Memory and
Delivery for this class.
What the handout calls "Controlling Statements," I call a
Thesis if the sentence governs a whole essay, or a Topic
Sentence if it governs a paragraph. Thesis statements and topic
sentences have the same form, and a very similar purpose.
For this exercise, I'll divide the class into 5 groups and give
each group one of the topic sentences. Each group will work
together on writing a paragraph that fits the topic sentence.
Use the information that goes with the topic sentence; leave the
rest out. Arrange the sentence in the paragraph in the order
that the topic sentence sets up. Once you finish your group's
paragraph, upload it to the forum on Moodle & read the other
4 paragraphs. Together they show the difference that the topic
sentence makes on how you write your paragraph.