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role. For example, the bride often wears a long white holoku (wedding
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SUPORTING dress), and the groom wears a long-sleeved white shirt and pants with a red
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sash around his waist. Both the bride and the groom wear leis. The bride's

lei is traditionally made of white flowers such as pikake (jasmine), and the
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groom's is made of green maile leaves. Another Hawaiian custom is the
blowing of a conch shell three times to begin the ceremony. Hawaiian music
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is played both during the ceremony and during the luau afterward. Other

customs included in the festivities depend on the ethnic backgrounds of the
couple. For instance, there may be noisy firecrackers, a Chinese way of
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keeping bad spirits away. There may be a display of Japanese origami, or
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there may be a pandango, a Filipino custom. During a pandango, the

wedding guests tape money together and wrap it around the couple during
their first dance together as husband and wife.

CONCLUDING SENTENCE 12 AII in all, a Hawaiian wedding is truly a magical, multicultural event.
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Questions on the Model!
1. Look at the title. What is the topic of the paragraph?
2. Look at the first sentence. What does it say about the topic?
3. Now, look at the last sentence. What idea from the first sentence is
repeated here?

Now let’s each of the three parts of a paragraph in more detail.

The Topic The topic sentence is the most imp01tant sentence in a paragraph. It has
two parts: a topic and a controlling idea. The topic names the subject of the
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paragraph. ln our model, the topic is Hawaiian weddings. The controlling idea
tells what the paragraph will say about the topic. It is called the controlling
idea because it controls or limits the topic to a very specific point or points. In
our model, the controlling idea is that weddings in Hawaii are special because

of the mix of cultures.

Here are examples of topic sentences with the same topic but different
controlling ideas:

------Topic----- ----- Controlling Idea -----
1 a. Some marriages are a union of two families.

------Topic----- ----- Controlling Idea -----
1 b. Some marriages are a union of two individuals.

------Topic----- ----- Controlling Idea -----

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