Target: to revise your concession paragraphs and outline "pro" paragraphs
1.Vocabulary Test on Lesson 6
2. Review successful concession paragraphs:
THESIS: My friend should eat less junk food.
Concession Paragraph: Of course, there are certain benefits to the caffeinated sugar rush that comes with guzzling down sweets with coffee: heightened awareness and accelerated thinking. However, the repercussions of constantly receiving an artificial rush of energy are staggering. This coupled with high sugar drinks and fatty foods will inevitably result in diminishing of his health and well being. Therefore, he needs to change his eating habits before they get more out of hand and his health is put in jeopardy.
THESIS: My friend should stop drinking alcohol as way to cope with his problems.
Concession Paragraph: Certainly, drinking provides my friend an outlet, a way to escape his real life and forget what troubles he has in his life. Nevertheless, the young man is just that, seventeen years old and has a whole life ahead of him. He is intelligent and great with people and has a bright future. Coping with his problems by drinking is slowly eating away at that future. Every drink he takes, the window of opportunity slowly closes, inch by inch, and before he knows it, it will be closed forever. Therefore, drowning himself in his sorrows with alcohol is not beneficial in any way at all.
3. Revise your concession paragraph. SHARE WITH YOUR GROUP.
4. What are your PRO paragraphs going to focus on? One reason per paragraph. ROUGH DRAFT of both will be turned in on MONDAY.
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