1. Macbeth Essay
It’s not that scary . . .

2. Working on the Outline

3. Find your support
Use your question sheet to locate passages that talk about your topic.
Use your Macbeth handout to find particular scenes or to look up quotes you had previously written down.

4. The Guidelines Essay Format (by paragraph)
Introduction and Thesis statement
Reason 1 and quote support (quotes and explanations)
Reason 2 and quote support (quotes and explanations)
Reason 3 and quote support (quotes and explanations)
Restatement and concluding thought (what lesson can the reader take away from this paper?)

5. Reminder
This is NOT an observation paper. You are not telling the reader what you SEE. Take what you see and analyze it. Ask yourself, “Why is this important? What is it doing?”

6. Working on the Thesis Your thesis must provide context.
Include the author’s name and the work’s title in a phrase
Your thesis must focus on an element within the work (in this case, the theme)
Your thesis must use the active voice
Your thesis must make a positive statement about something that you must prove

7. Positive statement (using active voice) that you must prove
Example Thesis
Context: author and title
Within Dumas’s novel The Count of Monte Cristo, plot development showcases the theme of human justice.
Positive statement (using active voice) that you must prove
Element of focus (theme)

8. Honors class must add a third “Support” to each “Reason”
Working on the Outline
Thesis statement I. Reason 1 II. Reason 2 III. Reason 3 Restatement
Reason 1
First support
Quote
Explanation
Second support
Honors class must add a third “Support” to each “Reason”

9. Example Outline
Thesis statement: Within Dumas’s novel The Count of Monte Cristo, plot development showcases the theme of human justice. I. Edmond is falsely accused and imprisoned. II. Edmond uses his time in prison to plan his revenge. III. Edmond finds and punishes those who had ruined his life. Restatement: Human justice intertwines itself as a major theme within the plot of Dumas’s Count of Monte Cristo.

10. Quoting Text from a Play
Use line numbers instead of page numbers.
Example: “quoted text” ( ).
Use / and capital letters to signal line breaks in verse forms.
…Macbeth’s nature as “too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness/ To catch the nearest way” ( ).
(Use regular quoting methods for prose {text in paragraph form})
What’s the difference between verse and prose?
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See shakespeare/ for details

11. Reference Entry Format
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12. The Guidelines Looks 12 point font Times New Roman Double spaced Title
Work cited entry at the end of last page
Line numbers used within in-text citations
Example: “quoted text” ( ).

13. Outline due Tuesday night (11/24) at 9:59pm.
Turn-It-In
Outline due Tuesday night (11/24) at 9:59pm.

14. Rubric

15. Writing the Intro and Conclusion

16. The Introduction Funnel format
Opening sentence grabs reader’s attention and identifies your topic (which is not your author or work but the element in your work that you are analyzing).
You continue to get more specifically focused on your paper’s thesis with each sentence, using each sentence to add one more level of specificity.
Your last sentence will be your thesis statement.

17. The Introduction Example
First sentence – something thoughtful about the topic of guilt
2nd – guilt can affect people in many ways
3rd – literature often shows guilt’s detrimental affects
4th - thesis about Shakespeare’s Macbeth (specific literary work) showing effects of guilt.
*I add one new aspect (underlined) in each sentence while building on what I previously said.
*Intro paragraph should be 3-5 well-controlled sentences.

18. The Conclusion Inverse (flipped) Funnel format
1st sentence = restated thesis (different words but same idea)
2nd – 4th sentences = considering your paper topic on a broader level that can apply to anyone
If you were on the topic of guilt, you could focus on its harmful affects and lasting nature. Therefore, people should be careful of their words and actions to avoid becoming guilty in the first place.

19. Final paper due Friday night (12/11) by 9:59pm.
Turn-It-In
Final paper due Friday night (12/11) by 9:59pm.
5-paragraph structure
Intro and conclusion added
Changes made in argument and in grammar/punctuation
Reference entry in correct format at the bottom of your last essay page