THE TURKEY SANDWICH PARAGRAPH

A turkey sandwich paragraph has six parts:

Topic sentence (the point of your paragraph)

Context (whats happening in the book or play at this time)
Introduction of quote (who said the quote and to whom)
Quote from the book (SANDWICHED in the middle of the paragraph)
Citation: (authors last name and page number for a novel)
Explanation (In your own words, explain the quote and tell why it is
important.)
SAMPLE TURKEY SANDWICH PARAGRAPH
In the novel Tess of the dUrbervilles, by Thomas Hardy, Tess is torn

between doing what she believes is right and what her mother tells her to
do. In Chapter 31, Tess wants to marry Angel and believes she should tell her
fianc about her past relationship with another man before she marries. In a
letter to Tess, the mother writes, Tess . . . on no account do you say a word
of your Bygone Trouble to him (Hardy 153). In this quote, the mother makes
clear that Tess would be foolish to reveal her secret to her fianc.

The

mother understands that Tess lives in a time and place (Victorian England)
that would not forgive a woman for losing her purity before marriage for any
reason. The dilemma of whether to be honest underscores the difficulties
women faced in Victorian times a major theme in Hardys novel.