Week 1
Lesson 1
Introduction to Formal Essay Writing
This lesson covers the main components of MLA formatting, including how to format an essay properly, the MLA citing rules, and the main parts of a literary analysis essay.
 Week 2
Lesson 2
Crash Course on MLA & Writing the Thesis Statement and Body Paragraphs
Lesson 2: Part 1 will cover how to set up a document properly in MLA formatting. 

Lesson 2: Part 2 will break down the three parts of the literary analysis essay: introduction, body, and conclusion, and the necessary parts of each.  Using a short story or poem, learners will decide on a literary device they want to analyze and start writing their thesis statement and body paragraph.
 Week 3
Lesson 3
Writing the Introduction
This lesson's focus is just the introduction of the essay.  Introductions are super important, especially writing a strong attention-getter. This lesson will take the learner through the parts of the introduction, types of attention-getters that are great to use, and then show them how to build the background information to form the perfect introduction.
 Week 4
Lesson 4
Writing the Conclusion
During this lesson, learners will dive into the three parts of the concluding paragraph, write a practice conclusion, and then write the conclusion to their essays.
 Week 5
Lesson 5
The Works Cited Page and Editing Process
During this lesson, learners will go through the steps to creating a Works Cited page, view the grading rubric, and gain some new tips on how to edit their writing for clarity, grammar, word choice, and more.  BONUS CONTENT: a comprehensive review of the literary analysis enrichment!