1. Microtheme

2. What is a microtheme?
The MICROTHEME, a brief essay limited to one side of a 5" x 8" index card, is an ideal instrument for painlessly increasing the written content of a course. Brief, and thus easily graded, it is educationally sound, for a great deal of thinking must precede the writing.

3. 1st Sentence
Restate the question or prompt, include a thesis statement (your opinion, feeling), and include the 3 details you will be discussing.
This might be a long sentence – so watch your sentence structure to make sure you don’t use run- on sentences!

4. 2nd Sentence
Address the first point (detail) you introduced in your thesis statement.

5. 3rd Sentence
Provide evidence from the text (cite and example) that supports your statement from the 2nd sentence.

6. 4th Sentence Analysis of your example provided in the 3rd sentence.
Explain how or why your example answers the prompt.

7. 5th Sentence
Address the second point (detail) you introduced in your thesis statement.

8. 6th Sentence
Provide evidence from the text (cite and example) that supports your statement from the 5th sentence.

9. 7th Sentence Analysis of your example provided in the 6th sentence.
Explain how or why your example answers the prompt

10. 8th Sentence
Address the third point (detail) you introduced in your thesis statement.

11. 9th Sentence
Provide evidence from the text (cite and example) that supports your statement from the 8th sentence.

12. 10th Sentence Analysis of your example provided in the 9th sentence.
Explain how or why your example answers the prompt.

13. 11th Sentence
This is your conclusion sentence that restates the thesis and wraps up the piece with a nice bow!
Your entire microtheme
will be sentences
total!