We are continuing our composition instruction throughout the week. Today, we studied the text and discussed how to summarize text to support a claim. We specifically addressed Dickens' opposition to the Poor Laws and debtor's prison laws as illustrated in the story, "A Christmas Carol." Atticus then composed a topic sentence for his second paragraph on social justice and drafted a second paragraph summarizing those portions of the text that support the claim that Dickens favored a repeal of both the Poor Laws and the laws establishing the debtor's prison.