Lesson 5: Organizing Your Essay
Completion requirements
- Objective: Organize your thoughts and evidence into a clear essay structure.
- Instructions:
- Create an outline for your character analysis essay. The outline should include:
- Introduction: Introduce the character, the novel, and your thesis statement (the main argument of your essay about the character's motivations).
- Body Paragraph 1: Present the first motivation and provide evidence from the text to support it.
- Body Paragraph 2: Present the second motivation and provide evidence from the text to support it.
- Body Paragraph 3: Discuss the character's interactions with other characters and how those interactions relate to their motivations.
- Conclusion: Summarize your analysis and explain the importance of understanding the character’s motivations in the context of the novel.
- Use your notes and textual evidence to help organize your ideas.