Lesson

Assignment 2

(100 marks)

Open the Word document "Essay Skeleton".
Save it as E201U2L2 Snow Woman skeleton
In this document, complete the assignment outlined below.
Submit this assignment using the Dropbox Folder for U2L2 Snow Woman skeleton.

Rather than writing a formal literary essay, you are going to create a skeleton essay by filling in the spaces in the chart. Notice that the body paragraphs follow this format: (NEXT)

  • New idea - provide a topic sentence for the paragraph that is related to your thesis statement
  • Evidence - provide evidence in the form of a strong quotation or paraphrase from the story to support your statement
  • eXplanation - explain how the detail you have chosen proves your thesis to be true
  • Evidence - provide evidence in the form of a strong quotation or paraphrase from the story to support your statement
  • eXplanation - explain how the detail you have chosen proves your thesis to be true
  • Evidence - provide evidence in the form of a strong quotation or paraphrase from the story to support your statement
  • eXplanation - explain how the detail you have chosen proves your thesis to be true
  • Transition - provide a transition from this paragraph to the next

EACH paragraph, then, will follow the "principle of thirds" - you create a statement, and then provide three pieces of evidence to support it, evidence for which you provide explanations.

Use your thesis statement from the paragraph you wrote in Assignment Two to begin your Essay Skeleton.

Click for an example of an essay skeleton for the Macbeth essay in the Exemplars document.