Turning Your Social Studies Notes into a Paragraph

Now that you’ve completed your notes, you will be writing the first body paragraph of your report. It needs to be typed and printed. DUE MONDAY

As we discussed in class, your paragraph needs to start with a general topic sentence – no specific information, no details. All of your notes should fit under the umbrella of your topic sentence.

To turn your notes into sentences, focus on these two things:

1. Try to combine several pieces of information into one interesting sentence.

Example notes:

homes had 1-3 floors

houses were build on high land

floods common

Sentence: Homes in Ancient Egypt, typically three floors or less, were built on high land to avoid floods.

2. Put as much interesting information as you can into each sentence.

Example note: King Tut famous because his tomb never robbed

Sentence: King Tut may not have been the most important or influential pharaoh of his time, but today he is considered the most famous of all Egyptian pharaohs.  This is only because his tomb was never robbed, leaving us with precious artifacts that tell us about his life.