We had a really interesting lesson in my English 101 class today, about essays and how they should be structured. We took the pages of this book out of context and put them in the order we thought they should go in, We were then prompted to write one sentence per page telling the story. My group got all the pages in the correct order! This is our story:
Willie went to the candy store. On his way home, Willie showed off his new red gobstopper to the neighborhood animals. While playing with his gobstopper, he dropped it down the street drain. Willie's gobstopper went on an adventure. At the end of the drain, Willie's gobstopper became fish food. Howard the fisherman went fishing with his grandchildren and caught a BIG fish. One night at dinner, Howard and his wife Martha were enjoying the fish that Howard had caught earlier that day. When Martha into the fish, she was shocked to discover the gobstopper. Martha hated gobstoppers, so she threw it in the trash. The Roubideaux space garbage men came down from outer pace and collected the garbage, gobstopper and all. Roubideaux number 1 was emptying the trash when he came across the gobstopper. Roubideaux 14 decided to taste the candy and didn't like it so he spit it in to the dark abyss of outer space. Space man Fred found the gobstopper floating in space. The gobstopper became famous and appeared on the nightly news. While at the museum, Willie discovered his gobstopper. One night, two robbers broke into the museum and stole the gobstopper. The next day, the news of the missing gobstopper made the papers worldwide. Willie tells the police how it's his gobstopper and the police chase down the robbers and the gobstopper. They go on a wild car chase to the airport. The robbers drop the gobstopper out of the plane. It falls and hits some innocent farm animals. Willie is now sad thinking he will never find his gobstopper again. At Willie's 50th birthday party, a bird picks up the gobstopper from her nest thinking that it is an egg. While carrying the gobstopper, the bird drops it and it falls and hits Willie's window. It bounces through the window and hits Willie in the head. Willie is happy again because he found his long lost gobstopper.
Putting the pages in order could change the story so our story was unique from the other groups. It was interesting to see how the same story could be different just based on order. It demonstrated how different essays could be and how they weren't as simple as an introduction, a thesis statement with three points. three body paragraphs for each of the thesis points, and a conclusion to wrap it up. They could strongly vary, long introductions, no thesis, more than three body paragraphs. It was a really unique and interesting way to think about essays.
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