The following is an essay from bookrags.com which gives you a great example of how to write your essay. You should rely on the format only and not the words or transitions as they are lacking. Read the following essay and then discuss and type answers to the questions that follow. INTRODUCTION
"Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird,"(Lee 90). Miss Maudie explained this to the children, and also let the reader know the importance the mockingbird motif would have later on in the book. In the novel,
To Kill a Mockingbird
, by Harper Lee, the author portrays some of her characters as mockingbirds. Boo Radley, Scout, and Tom Robinson are all portrayed as mockingbirds. Introduction:
Sentence 1 should be an attention getting statement. You can use a quotation from The
Pearl, or an interesting fact, or startling statement. Notice this essay uses a quotation. 1. Highlight in red the quotation
2. List the intext citation that immediately follows the quotation: Sentence 23 should have the name of the book and the author.
3. Highlight in yellow the name of book and author. The final sentence of the introduction will be the thesis. Your thesis should be an opinionbased thesis with three points on the themes we have discussed in class.
4. What is the opinion based thesis in this essay?: Boo Radley, Scout, and Tom Robinson are all portrayed as mockingbirds.
BODY PARAGRAPH 1 First, Boo is a mockingbird in this book. For example, despite the fact that Boo has not personally done anything to Miss Stephanie Crawford, she still spreads rumors about him. In fact, a lot of people in Maycomb County make up rumors about Boo, but none of them are true. In the story it says, "Miss