An alternative to the 5-paragraph form.

• Pattern: Identify the pattern or thing that you find most interesting/revealing.
• Working thesis: Make a claim about the above pattern. In other words, so what?
• Introduction/Pan: In your introduction, identify your chosen pattern and state your working thesis.
• Track: In your first body paragraph, trace the pattern broadly over the course of the book.
• Zoom #1: Choose a passage that is important and representative for your chosen pattern and Working Thesis. Identify:
  • What can you say about this passage? (So what?)
  • What else can you say about it? (Make more than one claim; 10 on 1 analysis)
  • What else can you say about it?
  • How is this passage representative of wha...