Students will have the opportunity to practice dividng text into paragraphs by analyzing what determines a cohesive unit of ideas.
Paragraphs are conventional ways of letting readers know which ideas go together as units.
Here is a rough draft of a student's essay. Help him decide where to divide his ideas. Feel free to experiment with more than one possibility. If necessary, add transitions to make the jump to the next paragraph smoother. We want to think for ourselves, we say.