Literary Analysis -Table for the 3 Support Paragraphs

Your thesis:

Underline the subject of your thesis.Underline the word that describes what you are arguing.

Number your 3 reasons.

(Ex: Curley’s wife, is as portrayed as themost alienated character in the novel Of Mice and Men

① ②③

through hernamelessness, her physical separation, and her perception by men on the ranch.)

1stBodyParagraph

Topic Sentence:
Include your underlined words aboveand reason number ①, but say it in a slightly different way.
Write lead in sentence(s):
EXAMPLE
Follow it with a supporting
Quote:
Weave your quote in! Do not begin the sentence with it.At the end of the quote cite it with a page number.
Ex: (2).
Transition:
to next example. (In addition, Also, Furthermore, etc.)
Write lead in sentence(s):
EXAMPLE
Follow it with a supporting
Quote:
Weave your quote in. Do not begin the sentence with it.
Cite it with the page number.
Comment:
on quote.
Answer “so what?”
or “what does this mean?
Connect it to life.
(third person)
Concluding Sentence:
for the whole paragraph.
(Clearly, the reader learns/
sees/understands that …) /

2ndBody Paragraph

Underlined words from thesis: ______, ______,
Reason number ②. ______

Topic Sentence:
Include your underlined words above and reason number ②, but say it in a slightly different way.
Write lead in sentence(s):
EXAMPLE
Follow it with a supporting
Quote:
Weave your quote in! Do not begin the sentence with it. At the end of the quote cite it with a page number.
Ex: (2).
Transition:
to next example. (In addition, Also, Furthermore, etc.)
Write lead in sentence(s):
EXAMPLE
Follow it with a supporting
Quote:
Weave your quote in. Do not begin the sentence with it.
Cite it with the page number.
Comment:
on quote.
Answer “so what?”
or “what does this mean?
Connect it to life.
(third person)
Concluding Sentence:
for the whole paragraph.
(Clearly, the reader learns/
sees/understands that …) /

3rd Body Paragraph

Underlined words from thesis: ______, ______,
Reason number ③. ______

Topic Sentence:
Include your underlined words above and reason number ③, but say it in a slightly different way.
Write lead in sentence(s):
EXAMPLE
Follow it with a supporting
Quote:
Weave your quote in! Do not begin the sentence with it. At the end of the quote cite it with a page number.
Ex: (2).
Transition:
to next example. (In addition, Also, Furthermore, etc.)
Write lead in sentence(s):
EXAMPLE
Follow it with a supporting
Quote:
Weave your quote in. Do not begin the sentence with it.
Cite it with the page number.
Comment:
on quote.
Answer “so what?”
or “what does this mean?
Connect it to life.
(third person)
Concluding Sentence:
for the whole paragraph.
(Clearly, the reader learns/
sees/understands that …)