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I. Introduction

A. Attention-getter/hook

B. Significance of topic

1. Significance of topic to you

2. Significance of topic to your reader

C. Thesis (What is the central idea you want to get across with your essay?)

II. Set-up

A. Background about event—to allow a reader to understand

1. History of people or event

2. Relevant details about the event

B. People involved

1. Description of relevant physical characteristics

2. Description of relevant personality characteristics

C. Setting

1. Description of setting using five senses

2. Explanation of significance of the setting

D. Short anecdote or foreshadowing

1. Details establishing conflict

2. Details establishing the stakes for people

III. Beginning of Event

A. Explain how things started to happen

B. Show what people did to reach the point where the event was imminent—point of no

return.

C. Detailed sensory description of what happened

D. Feelings about what happened

IV. Climax of Event

A. Things come to a head

B. Detailed sensory description

C. Feelings about what happened

V. Resolution of Event

A. Tell how things end up

B. Sum up the event

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