Thesis Paper - Due Tuesday, May 22

THESIS PAPER REQUIREMENTS

Length: 

3-4  typed pages (double-spaced, 1”  margins, 12 Font, Times New Roman, MLA Heading)

Type of Thesis Paper: 

Comparison/Contrast – Decide what topic you would like to use for your comparison/contrast thesis paper.  Quotes (at least 2 per work) and specific examples from the works are to be used to support every point you are making.

Choose at least three out of the four works to use in the paper:

Hedda Gabler  (Norway) or A Doll's House

Whale Rider (New Zealand)

Romeo and Juliet (Women of the Middle Ages in England)

The House on Mango Street (Latino women in America)

Choose one of the topics below to use as for your thesis paper:

1.            Who is the most mature teenage girl – Paikea, Juliet, or Esperanza? 

Compare the maturity of the young female characters in Whale Rider, Romeo and Juliet, and House on Mango Street and then compare their behavior with the behavior of teenage girls today. 

2.            Who has it worse by the way they are treated by men in their lives – Hedda, Paikea, or Esperanza’s friends on Mango Street? 

Compare the treatment of women by the men in their lives by using Hedda Gabler, Whale Rider, Romeo and Juliet, and The House on Mango Street and compare these relationships to the relationships we see in today’s society.

3.            Which teens have hardest teen issues to deal with in their lives – Romeo and Juliet, Esperanza and her friends, or Paikea and Hemi? 

Compare the issues (peer pressure, parental pressure, teenage romance, etc.) teens face in Romeo and Juliet, The House on Mango Street, and Whale Rider to the issues of today’s teens.

               

4.            Which leading male figurehead is put under the tough societal conditions and has handled it as gracefully as possible – George Tesman, Koro, or Father Capulet and Father Montague?

Compare the behavior/role of the men in charge of the household in Hedda Gabler, Whale Rider, and Romeo and Juliet, and compare them to men in today’s society. 

 

I.  Create the Thesis Statement

II. Create the Organization Outline for the body of the paper

III. Create a Works Cited Page

Using your noodletools account, create your works cited page.  You must use the noodletools account via High Point Regional. 

IV. Write the Rough Draft

This is not to be just a summary of each work.  You are to defend your thesis statement with a balance of summary, examples, quotes, and commentary.  I suggest you write the paper first and then add the quotes later to help defend what you have said. Remember:  Two quotes per work.

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V. Peer Evaluation

VI. Revise, edit, and develop...

VII.  Final Draft submitted to turnitin.com by 12PM on Tuesday, May 22.

The final draft is worth 55 points:  25 Points for Content & 20 Points for Conventions.