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We've got a pretty strong opinion on opinion paragraphs. But you'll have to watch the video to find out about it. Oh, and bonus: we'll also to teach you how to write one. Score.
Transcript
- 00:04
[Coop and Dino singing]
- 00:13
Sometimes, opinions can be like farts. [Boy farts in a classroom]
- 00:16
Just because you have one inside of you, doesn't mean you need to let it out.
- 00:20
But sometimes, that opinion just needs to come out!
- 00:23
And what better way to do that than in an opinion paragraph??
Full Transcript
- 00:27
Oh, and uh…if you could hold that gas until you're outside, that'd be grand. [Boy waits outside the door for the toilet]
- 00:32
So what's the first step in writing an opinion paragraph?
- 00:34
Well, it might sound a little obvious, but it's asking yourself one simple question: [Coop teaching about how to write an opinion paragraph]
- 00:39
“What's my opinion?”
- 00:40
Maybe you don’t like a character in a book…
- 00:42
Or the metaphors in a biography…
- 00:44
Or the pizza from your cafeteria… [Boy shakes a slice of pizza]
- 00:46
Why is it so rubbery?
- 00:48
Anyway, whatever it is, your opinion should always be the first sentence in your opinion
- 00:52
paragraph.
- 00:53
Step two is to give two or three reasons as to why you have that opinion. [Dino discussing how to write opinion paragraphs]
- 00:57
This is pretty important.
- 00:58
Sure, you can have any opinion in the world… but you need to have some reasoning behind it.
- 01:02
That’s what makes you a student and not just one of those strange people yelling on
- 01:06
the street.[Old man with a stick yelling on a street]
- 01:07
Next up comes your explanation.
- 01:08
This is when you come up with one or two examples to support your opinion.
- 01:12
You could show examples of when the main character is mean to his friends, or an example of a [Football hits man in the face]
- 01:16
bad metaphor, or a list of reasons why the cafeteria pizza is highly suspect....
- 01:21
You can ball it up and use it in a game of kickball?
- 01:23
Yup, that's a good example.
- 01:25
Lastly, you need to end your paragraph by restating your opinion in order to emphasize [Dino discussing how to end a opinion paragraph]
- 01:29
exactly what your point is.
- 01:31
After all, people have very short attention sp…
- 01:33
…ohh, a squirrel. [A squirrel appears by a tree]
- 01:35
…Uh.
- 01:35
Sorry, people have very short attention spans.
- 01:38
And then bingo-bango!
- 01:40
You're done!
- 01:41
So just to recap, for any opinion paragraph, you want to state your opinion, give reasons [Coop giving a summary of opinion paragraphs]
- 01:45
for your opinion, provide examples supporting that opinion, and then restate your opinion
- 01:49
one more time.
- 01:50
And if you're having trouble remembering that, just remember “OREO.”
- 01:54
Opinion, Reason, Example, Opinion.
- 01:56
OREO.
- 01:57
Milk’s favorite paragraph.
- 01:58
…Or…at least, that's our opinion.
- 02:01
Oh.
- 02:01
You can let 'er rip, by the way. [Boy farts outside of school by the bus]
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