A. Hook:
Today there are more than 7 billion people on the face of the earth , 1 Billion of which live in Slums.
B. Introduce to the reader what a slum is
A Slum is an urban are in a city made up of extreme poverty and toxic waste.
C.Thesis Statement
Slums are a district of a city marked by poverty, which in some cases are huge and take up a lot of land and fill it with diseases because of all the pollution in water their is there, this also means that tourists will not want to visit that city because of the ugly slum.
D. Transition to first paragraph
How does the fact that slums are huge affect a city?
II. Defendable # 1
A.Main Idea
Huge Slums make cities look really ugly and make tourist not want to travel there.
B. Supporting Evidence
i. Quote
"Nearly 80% of Nigeria's urban population or some 41.6 million people live in slums.
ii. Paraphrase
This means that almost a whole country lives in slums.
C. Explanation
By slums being very big, ugly, and poor makes the country look very bad and makes all tourist avoid going over there to visit because of the slums.
D. Transition sentence to the next paragraph
Being that the slums are extremely ugly and big comes the fact that pollution in the slum is at a very dangerous level.
III. Defendable Point #2
A. Main Idea (Topic Sentence)
Slum lords or Squatters put up shacks on land that no one else wants to use for example these places are like Flood Plains, toxic waster dumps, steep hillsides.This is why pollution in slums is so high and dangerous.
B. Supporting Evidence
i. Quote
"The precarious locations and poor quality construction make these settlements vulnerable to disasters like earthquakes and landslides."
ii. Paraphrase
This quote demonstrates that slums; because of there extremely bad locations make them very dangerous due to their locations.
C.Explanation
Because of the bad land, pollution, and vulnerability to natural disasters, make people in slums die or get sick more easily than usual people in the world.
D. Transition to next paragraph
Lots of people live in the huge slums for many reasons such as money...
IV. Defendable point # 3
A. Main Idea
The people who live in slums are mostly there because they expect to be better off than their current life, but in reality end up being trapped in there because of all the money they put into getting there in the first place.
B. Supporting Evidence
i. Quote
"People move not because they will be better off, they move because they expect to be better off, and this expectation pushes people out of where they are."
ii. Paraphrase
This quote demonstrates how people go there only becuase they expect to be better off then they already were.
C. Explanation
This Information explains why so many people move there in hopes of a better future.
D. Transition to conclusion paragraph
More than 1 Billion people on the face of the earth live on slums.
V. Conclusion
A. Hook:
Today there are more than 7 billion people on the face of the earth , 1 Billion of which live in Slums.
B. Restate Thesis
Slums are a district of a city marked by poverty, which in some cases are huge and take up a lot of land and fill it with diseases because of all the pollution in water their is there, this also means that tourists will not want to visit that city because of the ugly slum.
C. Summarize arguments:
Here we talked about why people move into slums, how slums are big and ugly, and the massive amount of people that live in them.
D. Leave the reader with something to think about him:
How far would you go in hopes for a better future?
i. Quote
"The precarious locations and poor quality construction make these settlements vulnerable to disasters like earthquakes and landslides."
ii. Paraphrase
This quote demonstrates that slums; because of there extremely bad locations make them very dangerous due to their locations.
C.Explanation
Because of the bad land, pollution, and vulnerability to natural disasters, make people in slums die or get sick more easily than usual people in the world.
D. Transition to next paragraph
Lots of people live in the huge slums for many reasons such as money...
IV. Defendable point # 3
A. Main Idea
The people who live in slums are mostly there because they expect to be better off than their current life, but in reality end up being trapped in there because of all the money they put into getting there in the first place.
B. Supporting Evidence
i. Quote
"People move not because they will be better off, they move because they expect to be better off, and this expectation pushes people out of where they are."
ii. Paraphrase
This quote demonstrates how people go there only becuase they expect to be better off then they already were.
C. Explanation
This Information explains why so many people move there in hopes of a better future.
D. Transition to conclusion paragraph
More than 1 Billion people on the face of the earth live on slums.
V. Conclusion
A. Hook:
Today there are more than 7 billion people on the face of the earth , 1 Billion of which live in Slums.
B. Restate Thesis
Slums are a district of a city marked by poverty, which in some cases are huge and take up a lot of land and fill it with diseases because of all the pollution in water their is there, this also means that tourists will not want to visit that city because of the ugly slum.
C. Summarize arguments:
Here we talked about why people move into slums, how slums are big and ugly, and the massive amount of people that live in them.
D. Leave the reader with something to think about him:
How far would you go in hopes for a better future?
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