Theme Statement Supporting Paragraphs
The poem “Did I Miss Anything?” by Tom Wayman is about opportunities,
and reveals that every day is a possible learning experience that only
happens once.
Theme Statement Supporting Paragraphs
The poem “Did I Miss Anything?” by Tom Wayman is about opportunities,
and reveals that every day is a possible learning experience that only
happens once.
In the poem, Mr. Wayman answers a student that asks if he missed
anything while absent from class. His reply, through the stanzas, alternates
between sarcasm and fantasy. For example, in stanza three, Wayman writes
“Nothing. None of the content of this course // has value or meaning”.
Obviously, a teacher doesn’t mean that, and he is being sarcastic. Since
sarcasm is stating the opposite of what one really means, the reader has to
consider the opposite of what Wayman says to catch his true message. Here,
he seems to mean that all the content of the course has value and meaning.
Because the student wasn’t present in class that day, he missed something
valuable.
Theme Statement Supporting Paragraphs
The poem “Did I Miss Anything?” by Tom Wayman is about opportunities,
and reveals that every day is a possible learning experience that only
happens once.
In the poem, Mr. Wayman answers a student that asks if he missed
anything while absent from class. His reply, through the stanzas, alternates
between sarcasm and fantasy. For example, in stanza three, Wayman writes
“Nothing. None of the content of this course // has value or meaning”.
Obviously, a teacher doesn’t mean that, and he is being sarcastic. Since
sarcasm is stating the opposite of what one really means, the reader has to
consider the opposite of what Wayman says to catch his true message. Here,
he seems to mean that all the content of the course has value and meaning.
Because the student wasn’t present in class that day, he missed something
valuable.
Theme Statement
Summary of Work
How it is Written
Introduce Evidence
Evidence
Explain Evidence
Notice how my
summary of the work
and the explanation
of how it is written
are so short? Yours
should be, too. Don’t
spend a lot of time
summarizing.
Instead, focus on
choosing a great
quote and explaining
it in detail, as you see
here—it is the
majority of my
writing.
Theme Statement Supporting Paragraphs
The poem “Did I Miss Anything?” by Tom Wayman is about opportunities,
and reveals that every day is a possible learning experience that only
happens once.
In the poem, Mr. Wayman answers a student that asks if he missed
anything while absent from class. His reply, through the stanzas, alternates
between sarcasm and fantasy. For example, in stanza three, Wayman writes
“Nothing. None of the content of this course // has value or meaning”.
Obviously, a teacher doesn’t mean that, and he is being sarcastic. Since
sarcasm is stating the opposite of what one really means, the reader has to
consider the opposite of what Wayman says to catch his true message. Here,
he seems to mean that all the content of the course has value and meaning.
Because the student wasn’t present in class that day, he missed something
valuable.
In stanza 6, Wayman continues by stating “Contained in this classroom //
is a microcosm of human experience // assembled for you to query and
examine and ponder.” The word “microcosm” means “little universe,” and
implies that everything about human experience can be found in the
classroom, as the universe holds everything in existence. The word
“assembled,” which means put together, shows that the experiences and
ideas in the classroom were collected on purpose, for the benefit of the
students. The students are supposed to “query and examine and ponder”
those ideas in order to learn. But, if they are absent from class, they can’t
learn from those ideas at all.
Theme Statement Supporting Paragraphs
The poem “Did I Miss Anything?” by Tom Wayman is about opportunities,
and reveals that every day is a possible learning experience that only
happens once.
In the poem, Mr. Wayman answers a student that asks if he missed
anything while absent from class. His reply, through the stanzas, alternates
between sarcasm and fantasy. For example, in stanza three, Wayman writes
“Nothing. None of the content of this course // has value or meaning”.
Obviously, a teacher doesn’t mean that, and he is being sarcastic. Since
sarcasm is stating the opposite of what one really means, the reader has to
consider the opposite of what Wayman says to catch his true message. Here,
he seems to mean that all the content of the course has value and meaning.
Because the student wasn’t present in class that day, he missed something
valuable.
In stanza 6, Wayman continues by stating “Contained in this classroom //
is a microcosm of human experience // assembled for you to query and
examine and ponder.” The word “microcosm” means “little universe,” and
implies that everything about human experience can be found in the
classroom, as the universe holds everything in existence. The word
“assembled,” which means put together, shows that the experiences and
ideas in the classroom were collected on purpose, for the benefit of the
students. The students are supposed to “query and examine and ponder”
those ideas in order to learn. But, if they are absent from class, they can’t
learn from those ideas at all.
Theme Statement
Summary of Work
How it is Written
Introduce Evidence
Evidence
Explain Evidence
In my second
supporting
paragraph, I don’t
need to include the
summary material,
again. Instead, I go
straight to
introducing more
evidence, followed by
a thorough
explanation. You can
see how I break down
a longer quote by
explaining parts of it,
one at a time.