Sojourner Truth Example

How do one’s social class and/or socioeconomic status influence one’s relationships and experiences.

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An outline helps to set up an essay or a research paper

An outline is a tool to help revise an essay or research paper.

An outline can be a study tool to help you summarize key ideas in reading

Where did it occur?

Was it summer, winter,

spring, etc?

What was the weather like?

Was it sunny? Cold?

What was around you? Were

you outside? Inside?

Who were the characters?

What were they wearing?

How did they look?

Describe your and the other

characters’ personalities

(happy, outgoing, sad,

moody, angry)

What did you see?

What did you feel?

What did you smell?

What did you hear?

What did you taste?

What was said between you and

the other character(s)? You can

make this up if you need to.

Also don’t forget to write down

who was speaking.

What happened during the

middle and be sure to use

descriptive words.

How did your story end?

What did you learn?

Remember there is always

a lesson in a memoir.

An Account of an Experience with Discrimination

By Sojourer Truth

A few weeks ago I was in company with my friend Josephine

S. Griffing, when the conductor of a streetcar refused to stop

his car for me, although [I was] closely following Josephine

and holding on to the iron rail. They dragged me a number of

yards before she succeeded in stopping them. She reported

the conductor to the president of the City Railway, who

dismissed him at once, and told me to take the number of the

car whenever I was mistreated by a conductor or driver.

On the 13th I had occasion to go for necessities for the patients in

the Freedmen's hospital where I have been doing and advising for

a number of months. I thought now I would get a ride without

trouble as I was in company with another friend, Laura S. Haviland

of Michigan. As I ascended the platform of the car, the conductor

pushed me, saying "Go back-get off here." I told him i was not

going off, then "I'll put you off" said he furiously, clenching my right

arm with both hands, using such violence that he seemed about to

succeed, when Mrs. Haviland told him he was not going to put me

off. "Does she belong to you?" said he in a hurried angry tone. She

replied, "She does not belong to me, but she belongs to humanity."

The number of the car was noted, and conductor dismissed at

once upon report to the president, who advised his arrest for

assault and battery as my shoulder was sprained by his effort to

put me off. Accordingly I had him arrested and the case tried

before Justice Thompson. My shoulder was very lame and swollen,

but is better. It is hard for the old slaveholding spirit to die. But die it

must......

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Use Figurative LanguageNarrate a Personal

Experience

Use a Quote

From a

Famous

Person

State Your Opinion

Use a DefinitionMake a Bold

Or Challenging

Statement

Hook- a surprising or intriguing passage or

idea used to grab the reader’s attention at

the beginning of a work

The lead (beginning or introduction)

establishes the direction your writing will

take. A good lead grabs your reader's

attention and refuses to let go. In other

words, it hooks the reader.

Hooking a reader when you are writing an essay is

just as important as a movie trailer is to the success

of the movie.You want to give “a little bit” of the

content, but you really want them to “buy the

ticket.” This presentation will introduce you to

some types of introductions so that you can use

them as your own when you write.

You should accomplish 3 things with your introduction:

Get the reader’s attentionPresent your topic and purposeConnect with your audience

Let’s look at some examples THEN talk some more about AWESOME writing

It all started the night before my

birthday, January 19, 2014. I was with

my friends when I got a sudden phone

call from my mother.

No, this is not a good hook – it lists the

events in order (avoid grocery listing the

facts)

I remember sitting in school one day after a test when my

teacher said she would like to talk to me. As I walked over

to her desk I thought I was in trouble. Nervously, I asked

“Yes Mrs. Cook?” She looked at me and held up my test.

Yes, this is a good hook – it places the

main character in an interesting situation

and as a reader we want to know what will

happen.

Baseball is my favorite sport. I love

baseball! My mom first put me in

baseball when I was 5 and I loved it.

No, this is not a good hook – it lacks a

connection with the main character and

it does not create a picture with the

setting.

AVOID meaningless questions that don’t ask the reader to think critically.

Examples of Meaningless Questions

“Do you hate fast food?”“Do you have a favorite season?”“Have you ever wondered why people believe

in school uniforms? Well, I’ll tell you.”

Sensory detail- descriptive detail that appeals to

any of the senses – sight, hearing, touch, smell, or

taste

Showing language- words used to create pictures

in the mind of a reader, rather than words that

merely tell what happened

a. Hannah said, “No, I don’t want a brother! I want a sister!” My parents tried to soothe

her by showing her that baby brother was sucking his thumb in the picture. Hannah

had been a thumb sucker from way back and my parents thought she would get a kick

out of our brother sucking his thumb inside my mother’s stomach. However, she still

looked like she had been sucking on sour candy for the next two days. My sister can

be stubborn. I think she must've been born with her hand on her hip.

b. My parents took my sister and me to Gatlinburg Tennessee. We stopped at a Super 8

motel for a little bit. Then we got up, ate breakfast, and were back on the road. For

breakfast I had pancakes and sausage. When we got to Gatlinburg, we went and found

our condo.

It was the edge of a baked summer night when

my tired mom, brother, and I eased into an empty

parking space near our apartment.

My mom pointed out a small dark figure in the

grass. “Look, I think it's a cat!”

“What's it doing?” I asked. The head lights

shined into the cat's sparkling green eyes as we

watched her groom her tattered fur.

Here’s an Example

“Please stay in the car while I see if the cat has a name

tag.” The cat didn't run away in fear, so it wasn't hard for

my mom to see that the cat was not lacking a collar.

My brother and I flapped like fish out of water as we looked

at the newly-found creature. The cat wasn't about to go

anywhere, so we took the liberty of bringing out a small

container of milk.

She lapped hungrily at the milk as we watched on. Her

hungry eyes thanked us as milk dripped down her chin

while she licked her chops.

The Second Rule of Writing

Quotations – The Comma

When a quotation is introduced, the comma goes outside

the quotation marks.

The Gingerbread Man said, “You can’t catch me.”

To close a quotation, the comma goes inside.

“You can’t catch me,” said the Gingerbread Man.

Quotations – ending marks

Provided they’re part of the quotation, question marks and

exclamation points always go inside.

The Gingerbread Man said, “You can’t catch me!”

Question marks and exclamation points go outside if they’re not part of

the quotation.

Did the Gingerbread Man really say, “You can’t catch me”?

Quotations – One Final Thing!

Always capitalize the first word of the person’s exact words.

Fox thought to himself, "That gingerbread man would

be good to eat.”

Write a partial autobiography, focusing on a specific

period of your life, such as elementary school, early

childhood, even infancy (though you may have to be

creative for that one).