Developmental Paragraph
Directions
1. Choose a Roman Numeral
2. Copy down your thesis and the information under that Roman Numeral
3. Write a paragraph using this information.
Format
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Topic sentence: relating to the thesis and your adjective.
Lead In 1 : Setup or Introduction of evidence
Evidence 1 : From outline with citation
Lead Out 1: Inference or Explanation that ties the evidence to the thesis and topic sentence
Transition / Lead In 2 : Setup or Introduction of evidence
Evidence 2: From outline with citation
Lead Out 2: Inference or Explanation that ties the evidence to the thesis and topic sentence
Concluding sentence: relates back to topic sentence
Model
Thesis: In “The Lady, or the Tiger?” by Frank R. Stockton, the princess is capable of selecting the
tiger because she is jealous, devious, and cruel.
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Jealous
A. The princess has seen the other woman, and she is beautiful (35).
B. The princess has seen her lover and the other woman exchanging glances (35).
The barbaric princess chooses the door with the tiger due to her overwhelming envy.
Her father, the king, picks a lady to place behind the door that the lover would marry if he
chooses that door. The princess has seen the other woman, and she is beautiful (35). Because
the lady is so lovely, the princess will not want her lover to marry her. The princess would never
be happy because she would have to watch her lover in the company of such an attractive lady.
Along with the lady’s beauty, the princess is jealous because she feels her lover is romantically
interested in the chosen lady. The princess has seen her lover and the other woman exchanging
glances (35). When she sees her lover glancing at another woman, she becomes so jealous that
she would rather have her lover dead than with that other woman. Overall, the princess
chooses the door containing the tiger because she would rather have her lover condemned to
death than to have her lover marry another beautiful woman.