Romeo and Juliet Paper Prewriting Outline

							                     Romeo and Juliet Paper Prewriting Outline
Introduction
How will you get people’s attention? Write that sentence here. ___________________________

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You’ll need another sentence or two to connect the attention getting sentence with the thesis.

What is your thesis statement? Write that sentence here. ________________________________

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Body
Paragraph 1: What is the main point? _____________________________________________

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Example from Romeo and Juliet: __________________________________________________

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Example from our society: ________________________________________________________

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How are these two examples alike and/or different? ___________________________________

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Paragraph 2: What is the main point? _____________________________________________

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Example from Romeo and Juliet: __________________________________________________

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Example from our society: ________________________________________________________

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How are these two examples alike and/or different? ___________________________________
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Paragraph 3: What is the main point? _____________________________________________

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Example from Romeo and Juliet: __________________________________________________

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Example from our society: ________________________________________________________

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How are these two examples alike and/or different? ___________________________________

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Conclusion
How will you wrap things up? _____________________________________________________

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Reminder: Your paper needs to have at least two direct quotes from Romeo and Juliet. Where
will you put those in your paper? When you use direct quotations, you must put quotation marks
(“”) around them use a slash (/) to indicate where lines end, and say where the quote can be
found in parentheses behind the quote. It will look something like this:

        After the Capulet’s party, Juliet goes to her balcony to think about meeting Romeo.
Juliet says, “O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? / Deny thy father and refuse thy
name” (2.2.33-34). She wonders why Romeo, of all people, has to be a Montague