The Moths by Helena Maria Viramontes Essay
Gonzalez 1
Your Name:
Professor’s Name:
English 1302: CRN ______
Date:
Tree Diagram or Informal Outline of Midterm Essay Two: Add a formal MLA style heading and header. Write on this document. Use as much space as you need to list your points and organize your preliminary outline of essay two.
Submit this document to the Tree Diagram Submission Folder in Module Three.
Informal Outline of Main Body of Essay: Planning Essay One (Confirmation Section) State the subtopics in the order you present them in your thesis; then, list four or more details to develop each subtopic and include at least one quote from the story to support each section of the body of your essay.
Thesis Sentence: State your narrowed topic, your claim or argumentative interpretation of the author’s purpose in the short story and suggest the four subtopics your paper will consider to support this claim.
Thesis Sentence: (Add your original tentative thesis here)
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
You will delete these lines when typing your thesis. They are here to remind you to write the thesis first!
Subtopic One: ___________________________
1.
2.
3.
4.
Quote(s): ____________________________________________________
Subtopic Two: _______________________________
1.
2.
3.
4.
Quote(s): ____________________________________________________
Subtopic Three: _______________________________
1.
2.
3.
4.
Quote (s): ____________________________________________________
Subtopic Four: _______________________________
1.
2.
3.
4.
Quote (s): ____________________________________________________