Odyssey Final Essay:
Thesis Statement Outline # 1 due Friday, January 25th, 2016
Essay Outline due February 1, 2016
Final Essay due February 12, 2016
Your assignment is to write a five paragraph formal essay on the topic below:
1. Examine how Odysseus develops into the model of an epic hero. In your essay, identify
and explain what Odysseus has discovered and learned about himself or about the
world/others and how this new insight develops his character.
Paper Requirements (Checklist)
1. Your essay must be typed using Times New Roman 12 Font and double spaced with 1
inch margins
2. It must include a centered title and proper MLA heading in the upper left-hand corner
of the page.
3. Your essay should adhere to proper grammatical guidelines (capitalization and
punctuation counts)
4. Your essay should adhere MLA format please see the sample MLA essay on the back of
this paper.
5. Essay must be told in third person (no I, me, or we), and must incorporate textual
evidence (for every claim/ statement you make you must back it up it with proof from the
text).
6. Finally, it must be at least three pages in length and include an introduction that ends
with a 3 support thesis statement, 3 body paragraphs and a conclusion that begins with
the rewording of that 3 support thesis.
7. Outline (20 points essay grade) must be attached to the final paper.
8. Please avoid plot summary.
9. Note that ten points will be deducted for every day this essay is late.
Ms. Timothy
3 Part Thesis Statement Outline
Topic: _______________________________________________________________________________
Opinion/Side of Issue: __________________________________________________________________
Blueprint of Reasons:
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Thesis Statement: (this will be at the very end of your introductory paragraph)
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Topic Sentences to begin each Body Paragraph come directly from your Blueprint of Reasons:
-Each body paragraph develops a single idea from your blueprint of reasons in your thesis statement
-The topic sentence is the FIRST sentence in the body paragraph, and it introduces the point of the paragraph.
-The body paragraphs should be in the same order as the ideas are listed in the thesis statement
Topic Sentence #1 (introduces body paragraph #1…use a transition)
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Topic Sentence #2 (introduces body paragraph #2…use a transition)
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Topic Sentence #3 (introduces body paragraph #3…use a transition)
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Name: _____________________________________
Date: ______________
Thesis Statement
Body
Point 1
Point 2
Point 3
TEXTUAL EVIDENCE for each point (Include Quote and Line/page numbers)
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Conclusion