Wild Child Annotations

Literature and Education Resources for the Wild at Heart

5 Paragraph Essay

  • To Write a Thesis

    There is no good essay without a good thesis, which is both the good news and the bad news. It is the foundation upon which every other sentence in the essay rests upon. Moreover, it is the soul of the essay. If the reader is lucky, it may even be a tiny little glimpse into… Read more

  • How to Write a Five Paragraph Essay

    By now you know how much I love the student essay. But how to go about teaching or writing one? I’m so glad you asked! Traditionally, the first essay a student learns how to write is the five paragraph essay. From there, he or she can learn to write a longer essay by… Read more

  • In Praise of the Essay

    I am very passionate about the essay writing process being an amazing, if not critical, way to engage with the big questions in a good book. Putting structure to thought is to make order of the jumbled up ideas in our own brain, and that is the point (one of the points) of an English… Read more