Especially for Pie Shell
Today, my students got to surf the web looking for any article they were interested in reading on any subject. (Lots of them chose to research Nelly.) Their assignment was to review the first two paragraphs of the article to see if they could find one or two sentences that summed up the main point, or thesis. If there was no thesis sentence, they had to write one that they felt summed up the main point of the article and then explain whether they thought the purpose was informative or argumentative.