Mr. Coey developed these helpful sentence starters:
ToK Essay Sentence Starters and Sentence Frames
Understanding Knowledge Issues:
- “When I read the prescribed title, I can see that the issue with knowledge is that …”
- “Of the ways of knowing, I know that ______________ and _______________ are two important ways of knowing related to the prescribed title because_______________________.”
- “The relationship between these ways of knowing can be described as ___________________.”
- “The strengths of these ways of knowing could be described as ___________________________
______________________________, and the limitations could be described as _____________
___________________________________________________________________________.” - “When I look at the prescribed title, it makes me think of the following questions:”
Knower’s Perspective:
- “As I begin thinking about my knowledge issues, I want to tell you about the time …”
- “In my _______________ class, we were learning about ________________________, and I can see how that experience relates to the knowledge issue for the following reasons:”
- “This knowledge issue reminds of the __________________________ theory I read about in _________________________________________ and it relates to the prescribed title by illustrating the idea of ___________________________________.”
- “I feel like I have developed as a critical thinker because I now know that _________________.”
Analysis of Knowledge Issues:
- “The prescribed title actually has this assumption about knowledge: ____________________”
- “My thesis statement is argumentative and it implies that knowledge is ____________________
___________________________________________________________________________.” - “From the example of ___________________________________, it can be claimed that we know that ____________________________________________________________________.”
- “Although ______________________________________________________ claims that knowledge is _______________________________________, we should consider that knowledge is actually _______________________________________________________.”
Conclusion:
- “What I really meant to say is ________________________________________.”
- “In conclusion, I am left with this question: _________________________________.”
“To understand knowledge, we must consider how knowledge ___________