Identifying Reasons - Questions
Answer the following questions about your character. Use what you know about how he or she acts, speaks to other character, and thinks. You may re-read your text to help you with your responses.


How did people or situations influence the character I’m writing about?
Here brain told her she was only 12


Why does he or she change?

because she relized that she should what





Explain what will continue to hold him or her back?
her brain will tell her not to










Session 4

Identifying Reasons – Possible Topic Sentences

Using the questions you just answered about your character, push your thinking to explain why your claim is true. This is separate than the initial evidence you previously found. Each explanation becomes a reason, which could later serve as the topic sentence of each body paragraph.



Text Title: cloudy with a chance of boys

Claim: jOE FROM CLOUDY WITH A CANCE OF BOYS WRITTIN BY MEGEN MICDONOLD TELLS A STORY ABOUT A GIRL THAT WANTS TO HAVE A BOYFRIEND
My claim is true because…..


Reason 1 JOE got jeles of here older sister





Reason 2 joes sister hase a boyfriend





Reason 3

joe wantsa boyfriend