Documents 2, 5, 6, and 8 center on southwest Asia and religions that stress the importance of a single god.
The “fill-in” sentences will contain specific references to each document that support its use.
TOPIC SENTENCE
1st paragraph
Our next step is to develop an opening sentence for each of our paragraphs. The topic sentence should give a general idea of what we will discuss relating to the information requested by the prompt.

Here we can open with the documents from a particular region (southwest Asia) that stress a specific characteristic (a powerful, directing god). Additional sentences for this paragraph can center on a piece of information (major point) that supports your decision to include this document in this paragraph.

You should use this process for each of the groupings, making sure that you have included all of the documents.

Note to teacher: It is important at this point to allow students to complete the process for each of the groupings either during class or as a homework assignment.