Q For this assignment, you will need to make a skeletal outline for your expansion of the limited time essay. Please scroll down for an example that a student did for The Bluest Eye. You should include: --your rough thesis --4-6 topics for paragraphs --bullet point notes about what you might write about --page references for two quotations or the actually quotations for each of your paragraph topics 2. Write a rough version of your thesis and and put it on the introduction outline sheet. You'll worry about the rest of the introduction for next week. 3. List possible topics for each paragraph and try to collect 2-3 quotations that you could discuss for each paragraph. These should be support statements for your thesis. You may follow the sequence of the story in making your paragraphs. Don't stress out! You're just getting ideas down quickly. Here's a model for your thesis: 1. Does the thesis focus on one topic and issue and does give an opinion about what the piece means (an interpretation)? Does it follow the model I suggested? (I’m recommending that you use the author and title to help you stay focused on presenting an idea about the story). Thesis statement: Focus on an Element of fiction (character, setting, etc) + Topic/important issue + Your idea about what the story says about it Thesis statement: Through its contrasting river and shore scenes, Twain’s Huckleberry Finn suggests that American individualism calls for us to leave ‘civilized’ society and go back to nature. Sample Outline “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison Thesis: Morrison effectively uses the gifting of a doll to represent the damaging effects on body image and the intensified resentment associated with society’s unwavering blonde-haired, blue-eyed, pale-skinned standard of beauty. Topic 1: Beauty standards / The idea of beauty - Shirley Temple, hollywood star / American icon - p.117 Frieda & Pecola adore / admire/ look up to Shirley Temple - “Beauty” represented in media, no diversity, brainwash Topic 2: Baby dolls - “All the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured (119)” - “Grown people frowned and fussed… (119)” - Idea of “beauty” passed down for generations; adults set the example for the younger, leaves Claudia powerless Topic 3: Resentment - “I had only one desire: to dismember it… (118)” - “The truly horrifying thing was the transference of the same impulses to little white girls. (120)” Topic 4: Conformity - Claudia grows up to become someone she is not - “It was a small step to Shirley Temple. I learned much later to worship her. (121)” Conclusion - Standards of beauty create hate / a divide between ethnicities / groups of people These are here as a reminder. You don't have to fill out a PIE outline this time. Here's the outline sheet: Thesis: Be sure to state your topic and your opinion and present your reasoning by explaining to a general reader why or how they should believe your point of view. Do not use “I” or “you”—just give your reasoning. PIE Paragraphs Name___________________ Directions: Write a rough draft of at least one body paragraph using this shaping sheet. Point (your idea or opinion about one of the topics that is related to your thesis and which serves to support your thesis): Information (examples, details, quotations, facts, statistics): Explanation (analyze the information specifically and prove and develop your topic sentence, that is your point; this is a point in your essay where you need to think hard and not just repeat what the quote says. Information (examples, details, quotations, facts, statistics): Explanation: Information (examples, details, quotations, facts, statistics): Explanation: