Notes #11 – Proper Organization

1. Notes #11 – Proper Organization • Introduction • Introduce the NOVEL and any other pertinent information • State your thesis (your answer to the prompt) • Support Paragraph #1 • Topic sentence supporting your thesis • Support from the novel • Explain how your support proves your topic sentence • Support Paragraph #2 • Topic sentence supporting your thesis • Support from the novel • Explain how your support proves your topic sentence • Support Paragraph #2 • Topic sentence supporting your thesis • Support from the novel • Explain how your support proves your topic sentence • Conclusion • Restate your thesis. • Explain how your thesis is relevant to the story.

2. Proper Organization – Title and Intro Title = Summary of your thesis • Introduction • Introduce the NOVEL and any other pertinent information (like your theme statement). Sample Theme Statement: Questioning the status quo can give new and enlightened meaning to familiar, everyday items and occurrences. • State your thesis (your answer to the prompt) Sample Thesis: The color red reflects Montag’s changing view on the role of fire as he begins to question the rightness of burning books.

3. Proper Organization – Body • Support Paragraph #1 • Topic sentence supporting your thesis • Support from the novel • Explain how your support proves your topic sentence • Support Paragraph #2 • Topic sentence supporting your thesis • Support from the novel • Explain how your support proves your topic sentence • Support Paragraph #2 • Topic sentence supporting your thesis • Support from the novel • Explain how your support proves your topic sentence

4. Proper Organization – Topic Sentence • Make sure to refer to your thesis in your topic sentence: First Support Paragraph: Early in the novel, the color red represents Montag’s passion for destroying books and ideas. Last Support Paragraph: Montag’s encounter with the red fire at the end of his escape reveals the new perspective on the role of fire as a something that can bring people and ideas together.

5. Proper Organization – Body Sample Support Paragraph: Early in the novel, the color red represents Montag’s passion for destroying books and ideas. During a “typical” night on the job as a fireman, Montag is destroying someone’s home in a “gorging fire that burn[s] the evening sky red and yellow and black” (Bradbury 3). This procedure brings Montag pleasure as he grins “the fierce grin of all men singed and driven back by flame…[the smile] never went away, as long as he remembered (Bradbury 4). As indicated by the archetypal use of the color red, destroying by fire is Montag’s passion. It brings him pleasure and provides a rush. For Montag, destroying with fire is not only right because it rids the world of potentially dangerous ideas, it is a passionate joy.

6. Proper Organization – Conclusion • Conclusion • Restate your thesis. • Explain how your thesis is relevant to the story. • DO NOT tell me it helps the reader better understand the story. • DO NOT tell me that it draws the reader in to the story. • IF YOU CANNOT figure this out, then don’t do it.

7. Thesis Now go back to Assignment #9 and compose a THESIS statement.