Create an example of the narrowing process shown in your lesson (the marine life to shark attacks example) starting with the topic "Education." Umbrella and Narrowed Topics
There are two kinds of topics: umbrella topics (sometimes referred to simply as “broad topics”) and narrowed (or limited) topics. An umbrella topic is something like technology or literature or art. The example above about the play Hamlet is an umbrella topic. Under umbrella topics are hundreds or thousands of possibilities. For example, the umbrella topic of “technology” is massive! It would include anything from cell phones, computers, printing press, cars, speakers, head-phones, TVs, harvesters, lamps, etc..
Even when you choose one of the categories under the umbrella, you still don't have it narrow enough. Because the topic computers can include topics like history of the computer, parts of a computer, purposes of a computer, computer games, computer equipment, programming, graphics design, etc.. You must narrow the topic down into a manageable subject.

Here is an example of how a topic can be narrowed:

I. Ocean

A. Marine life

1. Sharks

a. Great Hammerheads (depending on the angle you want to take, this may need to be narrowed further; because there is general information, and then there is a point to prove).

1). Feeding habits

a) What they eat

b) How often they eat

c) Hunting grounds

2) Reproduction

3) Body structure

4). Level of endangerment and threats to their existence

b. Shark attacks!

1) Mistaken identity

2) Famous shark attacks

3) Preventing shark attacks

in the short story the slip-over sweater by jesse stuart, the main character and narrator shan is friends with grace, an intelligent girl he has known since childhood and with whom he used to be in love.

at the beginning of the story, shan believes he’s no longer in love with grace, but loves jo-anne instead. in order to buy a slip-over sweater and have jo-anne wear it so that the other students would know she loved him too, shan takes a loan at the bank.

while jo-anne is wearing shan’s sweater, his friend grace starts to wear another popular boy’s one, roy’s sweater. because of that, the other students begin to pay attention to grace and compliment her perseverance and effort. they admire her for walking 5 miles to school every day, despite the weather, and still getting the best grades. shan, who knows all of that for a fact, says, as the narrator, ‘and i knew she had the durability and the toughness of a storm-battered mountain oak.’ he compares his friend’s strength – not only physical, but also of character – to an oak tree, whose wood is known for being sturdy.

as the story goes on, shan changes his behavior out of concern for the debt he has to pay at the bank. his new girlfriend jo-anne never asks him what is wrong nor offers any sort of . instead, she breaks up with shan for not being as fun as she thought he was supposed to be. grace, however, not only asks about shan’s problem, but him make the money he needs. shan can’t but notice how different the girls are and what a wonderful person grace is.   even though he used to find jo-anne prettier at the beginning of the story, he now says, ‘grace was as beautiful as our mountain was in april, prettier than a blossom of wild phlox or a mountain daisy.’ his comparing grace to a mountain or something that exists on a mountain (such as a mountain oak or daisy) certainly has important meaning since shan loves the mountain and everything about it and he knows the mountain thoroughly. shan also loves and knows grace as completely as he does the mountain.

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