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Building an Essay

 Carefully read the prompt.  Underline words which give specific, direct, important instructions/topics to address.  Pull out and bullet words/directions underlined.  Brainstorm answers for the bullets.  Use these answers for the bullets to develop the thesis.  Based on the prompt, decide how many paragraphs to use.  Pre-write for the body paragraphs.

 Prompt: Writers often highlight the values of a culture or a society by using characters who are alienated from that society because of gender, race, class, etc. Choose a character from your summer reading, and show how that character's alienation reveals the surrounding society's assumptions and moral values.

 Step 1: Read the prompt.  Step 2: Underline words which give specific, direct, important instructions/topics to address:  Writers often highlight the values of a culture or a society by using characters who are alienated from that society because of gender, race, class, etc. Choose a character from your summer reading, and show how that character's alienation reveals the surrounding society's assumptions and moral values.

 Step 3: Pull out and bullet the words/directions you underlined:  Character from TKAM  How Character is Alienated:  Society’s Assumptions/Moral Values:  Step 4: Brainstorm answers for the bullets.  Character from TKAM – Boo Radley  How Character is Alienated: literally locked away and shunned as a menace by the town  Society’s Assumptions/Moral Values: unforgiving of people’s choices and fearful of what they do not understand  Step 5: Use these answers for the bullets to develop the thesis.

In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Boo Radley is literally locked away and shunned as a menace by the town which reveals that Maycomb society is unforgiving of people’s choices and fearful of what they do not understand.

Some authors use children as characters to provide a more innocent point of view. Choose a child from your summer reading and discuss how their innocence is portrayed through their thoughts and actions.

Read the prompt.

 Underline words which give specific, direct, important instructions/topics to address:  Some authors use children as characters to provide a more innocent point of view. Choose a child from your summer reading and discuss how their innocence is portrayed through their thoughts and actions.

Pull out and bullet the words/directions you underlined

Brainstorm answers for the bullets.

 Use these answers for the bullets to develop the thesis.  Create your thesis