Based on each of the following informal outlines, write a possible thesis statement expressing a possible slant, attitude, or point (even if you aren’t sure that the position is entirely defensible). Compare thesis statements with classmates. What similarities and differences do you find? How do you account for these?
Get the financial and service plans of various smartphone companies.
Read the phone contracts as well as the promotional offers.
Look for the time period, flexibility, and cancellation provisions.
Check the display, keyboard, camera, apps, and other features.
Both Tony Hillerman and Margaret Coel have written mysteries with Native American characters and settings.
Hillerman’s novels feature members of the Navajo Tribal Police.
Coel’s novels feature a female attorney who is an Arapaho and a Jesuit priest at the reservation mission who grew up in Boston.
Hillerman’s stories take place mostly on the extensive Navajo Reservation in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah.
Coel’s are set mostly on the large Wind River Reservation in Wyoming.
Hillerman and Coel try to convey tribal culture accurately, although their mysteries involve different tribes.
Both also explore similarities, differences, and conflicts between Native American cultures and the dominant culture.
Downtown Playspace has financial and volunteer support but needs more.
Statistics show the need for a regional expansion of options for children.
Downtown Playspace will serve visitors at the Children’s Museum and local children in Head Start, preschool, and elementary schools.
It will combine an outdoor playground with indoor technology space.
Land and a building are available, but both require renovation.