1. • 1. GED Practice
• 2. Introduction
• 3. Body (Supporting Paragraphs)
• Due For Tomorrow: Introduction + (2-3) Body
Paragraphs

2.  Most people who fly business class, alter their
routines by reading a good book or catching up on
their sleep.
 Which correction should be made to this sentence?
 (1) insert a comma after people
 (2) remove the comma after class
 (3) replace alter with altar
 (4) insert a comma fly business class alter
Most people who after book
 (5) replace their with therea good book or
their routines by reading
catching up on their sleep.

3. • Write an essay about a lesson you learned.
• Support your ideas with personal
observations, examples, etc. in a well-
organized essay.

4. Write an essay about a lesson you learned.
• Grabber: Have you ever gone through
something that was so difficult you didn’t
think you had it in you to see it through?
Transition: That’s exactly what happened to
me. Thesis: When faced with losing my job
and my husband’s health problems, I rose to
the occasion and learned that I am stronger
than I ever thought I could be.

5.  Keep one idea to one body paragraph.

6. Topic Sentence
Supporting Details
Anchor Sentence

7.  A topic sentence (TS) is the first sentence of
the paragraph.
 It tells the main idea of the paragraph (what
the paragraph is about).
Topic Sentence

8.  Prompt:
 Write an essay about a lesson you
learned.
 Topic Sentence: (Sentence 1)
 I have learned that hard times can
make a person stronger.

9.  Supporting Details (SD)- Support for your
topic sentence.
Supporting Details
 Supporting Details answer
the questions: who, what
happened, where, when?

10.  Sentence 2: Last year, I lost my job
because my company went
bankrupt. Sentence 3: Then my
husband, Jon, had a stroke. Sentence
4: I had to get a new job and take
care of Jon and my kids.

11.  More Supporting Details:
 Stuff from your head, the "so what?" words
with feelings behind them that you can
describe
 Analysis, opinion, inference, insight
More Supporting
Details

12.  Sentence 5: The stress was
almost too much to handle.
Sentence 6: But now I realize
that the stress showed me
how strong I am.

13. • The anchor sentence wraps up the paragraph.
It rephrases the main idea.
It could begin with:
•As a result,
•Therefore,
•Consequently,
Anchor sentence

14.  As a result, I learned
Last Sentence:
that I can do much more than I
ever imagined I could, reminding
me it’s beneficial to go through
hard times.

15.  I have learned that hard times can make a
person stronger. Last year, I lost my job because
my company went bankrupt. Then my
husband, Jon, had a stroke. I had to get a new
job and take care of Jon and my kids. The stress
was almost too much to handle. But now I
realize that the stress showed me how strong I
am. As a result, I learned that I can do much
more than I ever imagined I could, reminding
me it’s beneficial to go through hard times.

16.  Use the outline to make sure you have each
part of the body paragraphs.
 Topic Sentence
 Supporting Details
 Anchor (Concluding Sentence)
 Due Tomorrow.