Final Assessment/ Research Paper Outline
Use this outline to prepare your thoughts and ideas for your paper. Once you finish, cut and paste it over to your blog. This paper will be between 3-5 pages, so make sure you have enough to discuss. There are spaces for 4 body paragraphs; if you don’t need that many, then ignore them.

What is the question you are answering in your own words?
How are Macbeth and Animal Farm related?

What is your thesis statement? This sets up the entire paper with your focus and direction.
Macbeth and Animal Farm are both works that revolve around power, how it is obtained and how it can corrupt people into doing things they wouldn’t normally do.


BODY PARAGRAPH 1
What is the topic/idea of this paragraph?
People will do anything to gain power even if it means being violent.

What quote(s) ideas from research will you use to help prove your points?
a. In the Presidential campaign, the candidates are telling the people anything they want to hear, just so they can get elected. They wont necessarily follow their plans if they get elected.

b.

What example(s) from the book(s) will you use to help prove your points?
a. In Macbeth, Macbeth and his wife kill Duncan and Banquo


b. Napoleon forces snowball off the farm using the nine violent dogs


BODY PARAGRAPH 2
What is the topic/idea of this paragraph?
Sidekicks can push leaders into doing things they don’t want to do

What quote(s) ideas from research will you use to help prove your points?
a. Bin Ladin and Al Queda can make a lot of people do whatever they want, so they can plan and execute more and more terrorist attacks.

b.

What example(s) from the book(s) will you use to help prove your points?
a. Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth to kill Duncan


b. Napoleon tells squealer to be mean to the other animals







BODY PARAGRAPH 3
What is the topic/idea of this paragraph?
Power can make leaders do things for the people they are controlling that aren’t necessarily good for the group as a whole

What quote(s) ideas from research will you use to help prove your points?
a. Bush is using his presidency to attack Iraq just because his father did it. He is not using his power to help the country as a whole by doing what is right and invading Pakistan.

b.

What example(s) from the book(s) will you use to help prove your points?
a. Napoleon makes the animals build a windmill that doesn’t help them, and he keeps all of the food for himself and the pigs instead of sharing with all of the other animals


b. Macbeth only did what he wanted to do while he was king. He didn’t care if it helped his people or not.



CONCLUSION
What should we now understand after reading your paper? Where idea(s) does your paper lead to?
a. Power corrupts not only the leaders in books and plays, but also the leaders of the world (ex. Cuba, Hitler, Zimbabwe, etc).


b. If power is not given to the right people, the world might become corrupt because it will be impossible to make the leaders give up their power