Paper Structure Exercise  When students are in the revision
stage of their paper, Jerusha Achterberg uses fruits to teach
students how to structure their papers so that the organization
coordinates with the thesis.  The idea behind this activity is
to break the 5 paragraph mold students bring from high school. 
Particularly, Jerusha wants the students to start thinking about
structure in a nuanced way and realize that it's something that
they control and can choose.  She brings in a group of fruits,
which represent a group of possible ideas.  The students have to
generate different ways of organizing the fruits, whether by
color, how much they like them etc.  Then she'll have a couple
students come up and group the fruits, and the rest of the class
will have to guess "the thesis."   Jerusha will encourage them
to think critically about whether the grouping and the thesis
match.  In other words, she might ask something like "If the
grouping is by color, but the thesis has to do with which fruits
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