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A Spark from Annie JohnsonOpening paragraph: as a hook or attention getter 1-2 sentences to engage the reader + author title of the story + thesis statement (TS)Body paragraph(s): using the story as evidence Support your point with selected details from the story; repeat the key words from the TS; use prompts such as “when…”, “I noticed…”, and “I wonder…” to push your thinking.Concluding paragraph: Reconnect to the broad idea in the TS.What’s Behind “New Directions”?理A02 陈逸舟(slightly adapted for conciseness) How come Mrs. Annie Johnson managed to change her miserable life into a self-sufficient and comparatively well-off one? The author Maya Angelou presented the answer by the title of her essay “New Directions”: When in a dilemma, find a new direction and keep going forward. To make a living after her divorce, Annie seemed to be faced with only one choice—to be a domestic, because it was impossible for a Negro woman to be hired at the town’s cotton gin or lumber mill. Since being a domestic means leaving “her precious babes to anyone else’s care”, which was against Annie’s will, she decided to find a new direction—to start her own business of cooking and selling meat pies to the workers in the two factories.Before cutting the“new path” for herself, I noticed that Annie was doing some self-evaluation when she told herself “she could mix groceries well enough to scare hunger away and from starving a man”. This indicates that self-knowledge is a priority when looking for a new way. To assess herself, Annie must have asked herself questions like “What am I good at?”, “What can be possibly achieved?”, or “What might be wishful thinking?”In addition to her wonderful self-knowledge, I was also awed by her ability to explore the external environment and find out the potential opportunities for her. She must have examined the situation with the workers, and therefore was aware that they would be thirsty for a warm meal. I believe that is how she came up with