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Quick conversation
• Share your work with a partner. Take turns sharing with your partner the sentences you identified with transitions that worked well for adding details. Discuss whether your partner agrees or disagrees with the other transitions you identified that could work in the sentences. Record notes from your discussion.
ACTIVITY 3.6
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In my opinion, this transition .
Do you agree with the transition I chose? .
I agree/disagree with your choice of a transition because .
Write a short argument
After identifying transitions in “Dogs Make Us Human,” you have enough information to write
a short argument. Choose one sentence from your chart. Write a short argument in which you explain the meaning of the transition and how it is used effectively to add details to support the central idea. Before writing, read the model short argument provided. Notice what information is in each of the four sentences. Try structuring your argument in the same way.
Would you please repeat that?
ModEl: SHort ArguMEnt
The narrator uses the sentence “But it would be good for animals, too” to contrast the earlier detail that humans need animals. This sentence with the transition but adds a detail to support the central idea. In my opinion, the use of this transition to add detail is effec- tive because it makes the reader understand that even though animals can do things that humans cannot do, animals still need humans.
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