1. Earning an a
Fantastic grade
starts here

2. How do you treat a person’s paper?
-Must be respectful
-Treat each person’s paper carefully
-Use only pencil and make light marks
-Be conscientious

3. Focus and Unity

4. To Kill a Mockingbird or
Title and Title
Underline
To Kill a Mockingbird or
Underline
Italicize
Italicize

5. Cohesion Review of your essay 
Does your thesis address to appeals and state whether they are successful or not?
Does each of your topic sentences have one appeal and adds whether it is successful or not?

6. clincher Review of your essay 
Does your clincher restate the claim’s success or failure?

7. Focus Review of your essay 
Who is convincing / appealing to the jury? ATTICUS.
Atticus or the jury should be subject of every sentence (generic pronouns are okay ).

8. Grammar

9. Review of your essay 
Spelling
Tip: Read the paper backwards

10. Verb Tense Review of your essay  Don’t forget was, were, made or had
How many is/are do you have in your paper?

11. Intro phrases Review of your essay 
1. Look for Signal Phrases (For example, / For Instance, / First of all,)
2. Words that end in -ly (Secondly, / Obviously, Unfortunately,)
3. Look for prepositional phrases (With this in mind, During the rising action,)_

12. Style

13. Fancy Fanboys Review of your essay  How many?
Is the punctuation varied?

14. Paralellism Review of your essay  How many?
Listing // either…or // neither… nor // not only… but also

15. Diction Review of your essay  How many literary terms?
How many vocabulary words?

16. Do’s and Don’ts Do’s Don’ts MLA Format Make it 4 paragraphs
No contractions
No You, I, Me, We, Us
No Bold or funny fonts