LEARNING TARGET: By the end of this week, you will have submitted a paper for OF MICE AND MEN.
OF MICE AND MEN ESSAY_2018
DUE: Before you go on Spring Break (so, if you’re here all week, that’s THURSDAY).
FORMAT:
- Typed
- Double-spaced
- MLA Format
- Submit PRINTED COPY
- If you want to submit a rough outline Tuesday, will comment before the end of class
- Thesis
- Topic sentences for each paragraph
THESIS EXAMPLES:
- Weak/Mediocre:
- In the film Platoon Oliver Stone deals with the theme of war.
- Mediocre/OK
- Director Oliver Stone uses the film Platoon to show how war strips men of their humanity.
- AWESOME SAUCE
- In the film Platoon, director Oliver Stone uses the soldiers’ reaction to death, the burning of the village and the character Sgt. Barnes to illustrate his theme of how war strips men of their humanity.
- Topic sentences for this thesis might include
- One way Stone comments on the way war strips men of their humanity is by showing their reaction to death.
- Furthermore, the scene where the soldiers burn the village emphasizes the theme of how war strips men of their humanity.
- The most powerful way Stone shows war stripping men of their humanity is through the character of Sgt. Barnes.
SIKK ENGLISH 