Outline For Analytical Essays Use This Outline For Trifles
Outline For Analytical Essaysuse This Outline For Trifles A Dolls H
Outline for Analytical Essays (Use this outline for Trifles, A Doll’s House and No Saco nada de la Escuela) Title- should include scholar’s theme, personal theme, and the title of the play (play titles are in italics or underlined). INTRODUCTION Hook sentence - quotation from anywhere associated with your theme and scholar’s theme. Historical significance. (5-7 sentences) Brief summary of the play (7-10 sentences) Focus on the characters or scenes from the play you will mainly use (4-6 sentences) Thesis statement (last sentence of the introduction) This essay will examine (scholar’s theme) and (personal theme) revealing (the overall idea of the play) and 3 specific moments or characters in the play.
First BODY PARAGRAPH Topic sentence - This sentence introduces the first point of the thesis statement which is a messy kitchen (2-4 sentence) NEVER USE A QUOTE OR PASSAGE FROM THE PLAY in your topic sentence. Discuss when the action happens in the play (2-4 sentence) Introduce the characters in the scene. (2-4 sentences) Play Passage “Here’s a nice mess.” (Gainor 123). Scholars theme - analyze the play’s passage using the scholar’s theme (4-8 sentences) Personal theme - analyze the play’s passage using your personal theme (4-8 sentences) Analyze this passage: DO NOT SUMMARIZE THE PASSAGE Explain why the passage speaks to your selected scholar’s theme. Explain why the passage speaks to your personal theme.
Second Body Paragraph-This sentence introduces the second point of the thesis statement which is a dead canary (2-4 sentence) NEVER USE A QUOTE OR PASSAGE FROM THE PLAY in your topic sentence Discuss when the action happens in the play (2-4 sentence) Introduce the characters in the scene. (2-4 sentences) Play Passage “Look at its neck. Other side too.” (Gainor 129). Scholars theme - analyze the play’s passage using the scholar’s theme (4-8 sentences) Personal theme - analyze the play’s passage using your personal theme (4-8 sentences) Analyze this passage: DO NOT SUMMARIZE THE PASSAGE Explain why the passage speaks to your selected scholar’s theme. Explain why the passage speaks to your personal theme.
Third Body Paragraph - This sentence introduces the second point of the thesis statement which is “knot it.” (2-4 sentence) NEVER USE A QUOTE OR PASSAGE FROM THE PLAY in your topic sentence Discuss when the action happens in the play (2-4 sentence) Introduce the characters in the scene. (2-4 sentences) Play Passage “We call it knot it, Mr. Henderson.” (Gainor 133). Scholars theme - analyze the play’s passage using the scholar’s theme (4-8 sentences) Personal theme - analyze the play’s passage using your personal theme (4-8 sentences). Analyze this passage: DO NOT SUMMARIZE THE PASSAGE. Explain why the passage speaks to your selected scholar’s theme. Explain why the passage speaks to your personal theme.
Conclusion
Call your reader to action (5-10 sentences) Let your reader know why it is important to read the plays through your lens! In this call to action, remind the reader of the historical significance because we know “people write plays because they have something to say” (Dr. Ryan, lecture).