The American Dream: Part II: Paragraph Analysis

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Synthesizing the American Dream: Part II – Writing the Paragraph 1. Choose which article you feel best supports your position. This is the article you will use as the source for text evidence in your paragraph. 2. Use the statement about the American Dream that you agreed with most (“My position”) as your topic sentence. So, word for word, the first sentence in your paragraph will be either: America still provides access to the American Dream for the “tired, the poor, and the huddled masses.” OR America no longer provides access to the American Dream for the “tired, poor, and the huddled masses.” 3. After your topic sentence, embed your first piece of text evidence (Quote #1). Establish what the article is about and include…show more content…
Changes to the pronouns were made and indicated with brackets [ ]. 4. For each piece of text evidence, you need to analyze/explain how the evidence supports your topic sentence. Example: Ehrenreich shows that though she is working very hard as a maid and earning just enough to get by, she is not obtaining the “American Dream.” In fact, the work is so difficult and the people that she works with have done this kind of physical labor for so long, they don’t even associate the “American Dream” with what they do, but instead accept their “hellish condition.” 5. Transition to your next example. Remember to embed your quotation! Example: Furthermore, Ehrenreich describes… 6. Again, analyze/explain how the evidence supports your topic

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