MCAS Essay
MCAS Preparation
Sample Long Composition Prompts
Directions: With your group members discuss your assigned essay prompt and make a simple outline for the question. On a separate piece of paper, identify novels/characters that could be used to respond to this prompt, a thesis statement you would use for the prompt, the topic sentences you would use for your body paragraphs, and the details you would use to support each body paragraph:
Novels/Characters that could be used to answer respond to this prompt:
Thesis:
TS 1:
Details for Body 1:
TS 2:
Details for Body 2:
TS 3:
Details for Body 3:
Conclusion:
Essay Question:
Characters in literature make decisions that have consequences for themselves and others. From a work of literature you have read in or out of school, select one character who made a decision. In a well-developed essay, explain the decision that the character made and explain the consequences of that decision.
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