Lesson Two - On the Rainy River

(100 marks)

Open the Word document essay skeleton. Save it as E301U2L2surname
In this document, complete the assignment outlined below.
Submit this assignment using the Dropbox Folder for U2L2 Rainy River skeleton.

Rather than writing a formal literary essay, you are going to create an essay skeleton by filling in the spaces in the essay skeleton chart. Notice that the THREE 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 One to begin your Essay Skeleton. You are answering the question, "In his autobiographical short story, "On the Rainy River", what idea does author Tim O'Brien develop about the nature of motivations that direct an individual's course of action?"

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