This is a personal essay (about YOU), the steps involved in the learning process, the negative effects experienced during the learning process, the positive effects experienced during the learning pro

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Template for the Outline for the Literacy Narrative

Thesis Statement– Write your thesis here. A thesis statement is a one to two-sentences statement. Review the thesis statement overview and examples listed in the Canvas course. Remember, a thesis statement can be an open thesis statement (general idea of the essay), or it can be a focused thesis statement (listing all main ideas presented in the essay). If it’s focused, all the main ideas introduced in the thesis must be presented/developed in the body paragraphs in the same order they are introduced in the thesis. The thesis statement should be the last sentence of the introductory paragraph. Your thesis should reflect the objective of the literacy narrative essay. (You are not just telling a story; you are telling your audience what you learned and how you grew from your experience.)

Body Paragraphs:

1. Topic Sentence- Write your topic sentence here. This topic sentence should introduce your literacy and the steps taken in the learning process.

   1. Provide the first step here in your learning process that you will be covering in this paragraph

1. 1. Provide a detail/example

   2. Provide another detail/example

1. 1. Provide the next step here in your learning process that you will be covering in this paragraph

1. Provide a detail/example

2. Provide another detail/example

1. 1. Provide another step here in your learning process

2. Topic Sentence– This paragraph should contain the struggles you experienced along this learning journey. The topic sentence needs to introduce this focus and needs to contain a transition.

1. Provide a struggle that you will be covering in this paragraph:

   1. What was one of your struggles?

   2. What did you do about the struggle?

2. Provide another struggle that you will be covering in this paragraph:

   1. What is another struggle you experienced?

   2. Which of the rhetorical patterns will you be using?

1. Topic Sentence– Write your topic sentence here. This paragraph should contain the triumphs you experienced along this learning journey. The topic sentence needs to introduce this focus and needs to contain a transition.

1. Provide a triumph here that you will be covering in this paragraph

   1. What was one of your triumphs?

   2. How did it affect you?

2. Provide a triumph here that you will be covering in this paragraph

   1. What was one of your triumphs?

   2. How did it affect you?

Concluding Paragraph: (You do not need to write this now but put some notes here so that you remember to provide it.) It should include the things you learned about yourself along this journey of literacy of your chosen skill.