From PROMPT to THESIS STATEMENT

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From PROMPT to THESIS STATEMENT

• Prompt
• Select a main character from F451. Then, in a
  well-organized essay, analyze the personality and
  traits of the character and show how they enhance
  the meaning of the book as a whole.
• STRATEGY
• 1. Draw a box around the word Then.
• 2. Underline the words that come before
  Then.
• 3. Circle the words that come after Then.

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Thesis Statement

• Definition a one-sentence condensation of your
  argument an assertion about something and how
  you intend to prove it in an essay/speech.
• Example
• In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury uses the character of
  Mildred, a distant and self-centered woman, to
  enhance his theme that a totalitarian and
  highly-regulated society destroys individuality
  and forces people to suppress human feeling and
  independent thinking.