Outline

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?
Is the plot and events of the memory keeper’s Daughter sound? Are they realistic and backed up?

What is your thesis statement? This sets up the entire paper with your focus and direction.

By forming a plot that incorporates doubt, honesty, and creating a new life, Kim Edwards creates a story that is realistic and believable for the reader.


BODY PARAGRAPH 1
What is the topic/idea of this paragraph?

Doubt

What quote(s) ideas from research will you use to help prove your points?
a. Misconceptions of people with mental disabilities
Misconceptions relating to mental retardation – Richard Antonak
b. mental disabilities are limitations – not boundaries – you can still be intelligent

What example(s) from the book(s) will you use to help prove your points?
a. David doubts that Phoebe will be able to survive, and compares her to his sister


b. Phoebe is successful in almost everything she does, and is a very functional person while Paul, the normal child is a disappointment to the family


BODY PARAGRAPH 2
What is the topic/idea of this paragraph?

Honesty and Keeping Secrets

What quote(s) ideas from research will you use to help prove your points?
a. Keeping secrets in a serious and lifelong relationship is damaging

b. when you tell lies it builds up – so it is harder to be honest in the end

c. keeping secrets can be a way to save your family and your marriage
jeanine amber – essence (ebsco)

What example(s) from the book(s) will you use to help prove your points?
a. David does not tell his wife that their baby is alive, but is mentally ill.


b.







BODY PARAGRAPH 3
What is the topic/idea of this paragraph?

Creating a new life

What quote(s) ideas from research will you use to help prove your points?
a. Many single women adopt children

b.

What example(s) from the book(s) will you use to help prove your points?
a. Caroline creates her new life to become a new person with Phoebe as her child


b.

CONCLUSION
What should we now understand after reading your paper? Where idea(s) does your paper lead to?
a. The plot/events of The Memory Keeper’s Daughter is realistic enough to have happened in 1964


b. The way the book is written, in great detail, helps aid the reader to believe they are reading a nonfiction story.