- Intro: How does death affect children?
- Thesis: In comparison, my dad's and my own loss of innocences are similar for many different reasons.
- Body Paragraph Topic Sentence- My dad's loss of innocence was when John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
- Body Paragraph Information- John F. Kennedy was a Massachusetts Democrat before he became President. He was 43 years old and his wife's name was Jacqueline. His wife was with him when he was killed. He was in Dallas, Texas before the 1964 presidential race.
- Body Paragraph Reasoning- These paraphrases are important facts that have to do with John F. Kennedy and they are about him because my dad's loss of innocence was when John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
- 2nd Body Paragraph Topic Sentence- My loss of innocence was when my great-grandfather died.
- 2nd Body Paragraph Information- The first person was James Foley who worked for the military in Germany back when John F. Kennedy was assassinated. He went back to Dallas, where John F. Kennedy was killed, and he started crying. Two kids who were in school when it happened didn't realize the kind of impact that it had, but they do remember seeing their teachers crying when the news that the President came in over the loud speaker.
- 2nd Body Paragraph Reasoning- These quotes, although they are about when John F. Kennedy was assassinated, have to do with death and the feelings that they were feeling. This fits the paragraph because my loss of innocence was when my great-grandfather died.
- 3rd Body Paragraph Topic Sentence- Both my dad's loss of innocence and my own had to do with losing an important person in our lives.
- 3rd Body Paragraph Information- Frances Green from Alabama, who was a high school student said, "A girl came through the halls at school screaming about it when it happened. When my teacher found out about it, she laid her head down and cried."
- 3rd Body Paragraph Reasoning- These quotes both have to do with my dad's loss of innocence and mine and this paragraph is about how my dad's loss of innocence and mine are similar.
- Conclusion Topic Sentence- Losing a trusted role model can change a person's life.
- Two other sentences in the Conclusion- My dad's loss of innocence and mine may not have had the same impact on the world but they affected us both in similar ways. The three ways that my dad's loss of innocence and my own were similar in that they involved grief, trust, and death.