Hints for Your Outsiders Essays
Character Traits
Use the pattern that you copied on that folded sheet and taped in your composition book:
Paragraphs:
1. Introduction ending with a topic sentence that tells which three qualities you will be writing about.
2. Paragraph proving that your character has the first character trait and explaining how it affects or influences other characters in the book.
3. Paragraph proving that your character has the second character trait and explaining how it affects or influences other characters in the book.
4. Paragraph proving that your character has the third character trait and explaining how it affects or influences other characters in the book.
5. Concluding paragraph that brings the essay to a close and has a final concluding sentence.
· Use specific evidence from the book that the qualities you choose fit your character.
· Use the words from the prompt: character traits, positive, negative, affect, effect, etc.
Analysis
Use the pattern that you copied on that folded sheet and taped in your composition book:
Paragraphs:
1. Introduction ending with a topic sentence that tells which three qualities you will be writing about.
2. Paragraph proving that your character has the first character trait by using things that he says and does and/or things other characters say to or about him.
3. Paragraph proving that your character has the second character trait by using things that he says and does and/or things other characters say to or about him.
4. Paragraph proving that your character has the third character trait by using things that he says and does and/or things other characters say to or about him.
5. Concluding paragraph that brings the essay to a close and has a final concluding sentence.
· Use specific evidence that the adjectives you choose fit your character.
· Use in your essay words from the prompt: adjectives, what he says, what he does, and how other characters react to him, and how he reacts in certain situations.
Use italics, not quotation marks, for book titles.
