Title: READ: Fleshing Out your Rough Draft
Course: English 9 (B)

Fleshing Out your Rough Draft

Your rough draft should follow this general outline. Each bullet point represents at least one sentence in your essay.

Introductory Paragraph: Funnel in. Start broad, capturing the attention of Joe Schmoe. Get more specific as you introduce the play. End with the thesis and a preview of where your three body paragraphs will go.
- Hook
- Background information (title of the play, author, brief intro to characters/plot)
- Thesis
- Preview/Transition Sentence: three supporting points

Body Paragraph 1: First supporting point to the thesis
- Topic Sentence
- Supporting Idea
- Lead-in Sentence (setting up the quote)
- Quotation (evidence to support your point)
- Follow-up Sentences (interpreting quote, show how thesis is supported)
- Repeat LS-Quotation-FS for any additional quotations
- Closing Line

Body Paragraph 2: Second supporting point to the thesis
- Topic Sentence
- Supporting Idea
- Lead-in Sentence (setting up the quote)
- Quotation (evidence to support your point)
- Follow-up Sentences (interpreting quote, show how thesis is supported)
- Repeat LS-Quotation-FS for any additional quotations
- Closing Line

Body Paragraph 3: Third supporting point to the thesis
- Topic Sentence
- Supporting Idea
- Lead-in Sentence (setting up the quote)
- Quotation (evidence to support your point)
- Follow-up Sentences (interpreting quote, show how thesis is supported)
- Repeat LS-Quotation-FS for any additional quotations
- Closing Line

Conclusion Paragraph: Funnel out. Start specific (thesis stated in new words), and then generalize to the broader implications of this topic. Leave your reader with "a gift" -- something to take away. Don't use "you", however!)
- Restatement of thesis (be sure to use new words, not the same as the thesis)
- Broad generalizations about the topic
- Closing line