1. THESES MADE EASIES!

2. TOPIC POSITION RATIONALE

3. TOPIC In (his/her) (short story/book/play/poem/film) (name of work),
(name of the author) argues that…

4. In her play Trifles, Susan Glaspell argues that… In her short story “How It Feels To Be Colored Me,” Zora Neal Hurston argues that… In his novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald argues that… In his poem “We Wear the Mask,” Paul Laurence Dunbar argues that…

5. TOPIC POSITION RATIONALE

6. POSITION
In (his/her) (short story/book/play/poem/film) (name of work),
(name of the author) argues that
(name of the main character/subject of piece)
(must/should have/needed to/was right to/was wrong to/was justified in)
(doing what? -- find a: choice or action)

7. POSITION 1) What is the main topic the writer is interested in?
Child labor
2) What is the writer’s position on the topic? How does she evaluate it?
Child labor is wrong
3) Who or what is the main character or subject of the piece?
Johnny
4) How can an evaluation of their actions/choices reflect the writer’s position?
Johnny was right to leave his job and family behind

8. POSITION 1) What is the main topic the writer is interested in?
Child labor
2) What is the writer’s position on the topic? How does she evaluate it?
Child labor is wrong
3) Who or what is the main character or subject of the piece?
Johnny
4) How can an evaluation of their actions/choices reflect the writer’s position?
Johnny was right to leave his job and family behind

9. POSITION 1) What is the main topic the writer is interested in?
Child labor
2) What is the writer’s position on the topic? How does she evaluate it?
Child labor harms child workers
3) Who or what is the main character or subject of the piece?
Johnny
4) How can an evaluation of their actions/choices reflect the writer’s position?
Johnny was right to leave his job and family behind

10. POSITION 1) What is the main topic the writer is interested in?
Child labor
2) What is the writer’s position on the topic? How does she evaluate it?
Child labor harms child workers
3) Who or what is the main character or subject of the piece?
Johnny
4) How can an evaluation of their actions/choices reflect the writer’s position?
Johnny was right to leave his job and family behind

11. POSITION 1) What is the main topic the writer is interested in?
Child labor
2) What is the writer’s position on the topic? How does she evaluate it?
Child labor harms child workers
3) Who or what is the main character or subject of the piece?
Johnny
4) How can an evaluation of their actions/choices reflect the writer’s position?
Johnny rightly leaves his job and family behind

12. POSITION In his short story “The Rebel,” Jack London argues that
Johnny
rightly leaves his job and family behind…

13. TOPIC POSITION RATIONALE

14. RATIONALE
In (his/her) (short story/book/play/poem/film) (name of work),
(name of the author) argues that
(name of the main character/subject of piece)
(must/should have/needed to/was right to/was wrong to/was justified in)
(doing what?)
WHY?

15. RATIONALE In his short story “The Rebel,” Jack London argues that
Johnny
rightly
leaves his job and family behind
because the factory system and his mother’s submissiveness to it
will ultimately kill him.

16. THESIS!
In his short story “The Rebel,” Jack London argues that Johnny rightly leaves his job and family behind because the factory system and his mother’s submissiveness to it will ultimately kill him.