The Scarlet Ibis

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   junebug614 Teacher
   High School - 10th Grade

   A topic sentence should give the reader a pretty good idea of what the rest of the paragraph is going to be about.  It is normally the very first sentence in a paragraph.

    One example from The Scarlet Ibis is, "When he was two, if you laid him on his stomach, he began to move himself, straining terribly."  This sentence gives the reader a basic idea about what will follow in the rest of the paragraph -- a description of what happens when the narrator's brother is laid on his stomach

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   Posted by junebug614 on Monday August 11, 2008 at 1:27 PM
   
   

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