1. Answer the question in regards to the text, “The Rabbits” or the essay, “Stone Faces”. 2. Essay has to be in critical analytical form. 3. Make sure there’s a theme and topic sentences. 4. 3pages. 5. Thesis needs to answer: What is the text you’re studying about? What is the overall, big picture idea you think the author is trying to make the reader realize? How does the character(s)/ persona/ narrator in the text(s) fit in with the essential question you are asking?