Paul Revere
The City of Revere
Topic Sentences
Juan Jaramillo
Random Classroom Facts
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This city was renamed from Rumney Marsh in 1871 to honor Paul Revere.

Revere

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Revere was first settled in 1626 under this original name.

Rumney Marsh

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This is the name of the sentence that expresses the main idea of a paragraph.

Topic Sentence

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Juan Jaramillo's parents worked this many hours per week as janitors to support their family after immigrating to Revere.

80

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When touch, see, smell, hear, taste are represented in writing

Sensory details

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On the night of April 18, 1775, Paul Revere made his famous ride to warn this city’s residents that the British were coming.

Boston

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In 1846, Revere was separately incorporated as this town before it was renamed.

North Chelsea

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A topic sentence is usually found in this part of a paragraph.

The beginning or first part

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Before serving as Budget Director for State Senator Joe Boncore, Juan Jaramillo interned for this Massachusetts political leader.

Speaker DeLeo

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A comparison using like or as

simlie

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Paul Revere’s most famous copper plate engraving depicted this event that took place on March 5, 1770.

The Boston Massacre

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This Revolutionary War battle took place in what is now Revere on May 27, 1775.

Battle of Chelsea Creek

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The topic sentence gives the reader this important piece of information about the paragraph.

The main idea: what the paragraph is about

300

As Chief Administrative Officer for Lawrence, Juan Jaramillo helped manage this nearly $400-million entity without budget or service cuts.

The city's 400 million dollar budget

300

A comparison not using like or as

A metaphor

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Paul Revere’s father, Apollos Rivoire, was a refugee from this persecuted Protestant group.

The Huguenots

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The British schooner destroyed by Chelsea patriots during the Battle of Chelsea Creek was called this.

Diana

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A topic sentence has these three parts

A subject, a verb, and a predicate

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In 2021, Juan Jaramillo ran for this position, earning over 90% of the vote in the Revere part of the district.

What is a state representative

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When you take something and break it apart into smaller pieces in order to understand how it works as a whole

analysis/analyze

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Besides being a silversmith, Paul Revere also crafted surgical instruments, replaced missing teeth, and sold these.

Spectacles

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Before becoming a separate town, Revere was part of this neighboring city from 1632 to 1739.

Boston

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A strong topic sentence often does these two things: presents the main idea and provides this about the paragraph's content.

It presents what the paragraph will be about

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Juan Jaramillo was named one of Massachusetts' 30 most influential people under 30 by this newspaper.

El Mundo

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Tone

The author's attitude in a piece of writing.

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