Introduction
Attention Grabber: this is the first line of your essay. It should be an interesting statement, anecdote, fact, or quote that makes your reader interested in your essay. Whatever the main topic is that you are writing about (social injustice), this should be what you write about in your attention grabber. Example: Social Injustice affects more lives in different ways than you may think.
Title: this is the title of the stories we are writing about- remember to use quotation marks and capitalize the title!
Author: the names of the authors who wrote the stories we are writing about
Summary: this is a brief, 2-3 sentence summary of each story. Make sure you don't leave out anything important, and don't include small details that won't matter in our essay.
Thesis: this is the point you are making in the rest of your essay. For this essay, make sure you say what the social injustice is in each story and what a character from each story did as a response to that social injustice. Also, make sure you include a sentence comparing the stories (what is similar) - we made a list in class together!
Body Paragraphs
There will be 3 body paragraphs for this essay: one about "The Scribe," one about "The Bracelet," and one that compares them both.
Each paragraph should have the following:
Point of paragraph: this is your topic sentence, or what the paragraph is about (hint: if your 1st paragraph is about "The Bracelet," then you just take the part of your thesis that is about "The Bracelet" and use that as your topic sentence. The same goes for the paragraph about "The Scribe" and the comparison.
Evidence: This is the quote you found in the story that proves your point. Write the page number in parenthesis () after the quote. So, if in "The Scribe," your point is that James opened a business to help people who were being treated unfairly because of their illiteracy, you need to have a quote from the story that shows that. "This is what the quote should look like" (page number).
Explain: Here you explain why the quote you chose proves your point. Why did you choose that quote? This should be 3-4 sentences at least!
Link: Here, you show the reader that you are finishing this paragraph and moving on to a new one. But, don't say, "that's all," or "now I'm going to talk about..." say something like, "James' reaction to social injustice is clearly shown here when he opens his business, while in "The Bracelet," Ruri doesn't act all." This shows your reader you made your point and transitions into the next point.
Conclusion:
Restate Thesis: here you remind your reader what your thesis was. Don't rewrite it word for word, re-word it and say it a new way, but still making the same point.
Restate Arguments: Here you reword the point of each of your 3 body paragraphs, to remind the reader what your point was for each.
Concluding Sentence: This is the last sentence of your essay. This is where you wrap it up and bring the work to a conclusion. Don't say "that's all," or anything like that. Make sure it is a unique sentence that shows the reader you are finished and have made your point. Close by restating or saying your attention grabber in a new way, so if I used the attention grabber above, my concluding sentence might be (don't copy these, make up your own!): "James and Ruri had very different reactions to social injustice, but in the end, they both stayed strong and did what they believed was right."
Attention Grabber: this is the first line of your essay. It should be an interesting statement, anecdote, fact, or quote that makes your reader interested in your essay. Whatever the main topic is that you are writing about (social injustice), this should be what you write about in your attention grabber. Example: Social Injustice affects more lives in different ways than you may think.
Title: this is the title of the stories we are writing about- remember to use quotation marks and capitalize the title!
Author: the names of the authors who wrote the stories we are writing about
Summary: this is a brief, 2-3 sentence summary of each story. Make sure you don't leave out anything important, and don't include small details that won't matter in our essay.
Thesis: this is the point you are making in the rest of your essay. For this essay, make sure you say what the social injustice is in each story and what a character from each story did as a response to that social injustice. Also, make sure you include a sentence comparing the stories (what is similar) - we made a list in class together!
Body Paragraphs
There will be 3 body paragraphs for this essay: one about "The Scribe," one about "The Bracelet," and one that compares them both.
Each paragraph should have the following:
Point of paragraph: this is your topic sentence, or what the paragraph is about (hint: if your 1st paragraph is about "The Bracelet," then you just take the part of your thesis that is about "The Bracelet" and use that as your topic sentence. The same goes for the paragraph about "The Scribe" and the comparison.
Evidence: This is the quote you found in the story that proves your point. Write the page number in parenthesis () after the quote. So, if in "The Scribe," your point is that James opened a business to help people who were being treated unfairly because of their illiteracy, you need to have a quote from the story that shows that. "This is what the quote should look like" (page number).
Explain: Here you explain why the quote you chose proves your point. Why did you choose that quote? This should be 3-4 sentences at least!
Link: Here, you show the reader that you are finishing this paragraph and moving on to a new one. But, don't say, "that's all," or "now I'm going to talk about..." say something like, "James' reaction to social injustice is clearly shown here when he opens his business, while in "The Bracelet," Ruri doesn't act all." This shows your reader you made your point and transitions into the next point.
Conclusion:
Restate Thesis: here you remind your reader what your thesis was. Don't rewrite it word for word, re-word it and say it a new way, but still making the same point.
Restate Arguments: Here you reword the point of each of your 3 body paragraphs, to remind the reader what your point was for each.
Concluding Sentence: This is the last sentence of your essay. This is where you wrap it up and bring the work to a conclusion. Don't say "that's all," or anything like that. Make sure it is a unique sentence that shows the reader you are finished and have made your point. Close by restating or saying your attention grabber in a new way, so if I used the attention grabber above, my concluding sentence might be (don't copy these, make up your own!): "James and Ruri had very different reactions to social injustice, but in the end, they both stayed strong and did what they believed was right."