Writing Your Thesis Sentence

Write your topic:

EXAMPLE: African-American Music 0f 1960’s

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What is an attitude or opinion about your topic?

EXAMPLE: Motown was a form of empowerment to African-American in the 1960s

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List 3 good ideas or reasons why that you have to support this opinion.

EXAMPLE:

1. it was a company owned by a black man
2. the majority of its employees were black
3. the music it produced sent a message of hope and  social justice to the African American community during a time of riots, revolution, and readjustment of the American dream.

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