Outline

What is the question you are answering in your own words?
What book should we swap in the curriculum for another book.
What is your thesis statement? This sets up the entire paper with your focus and direction.
The Inconvenient Truth, by Al Gore, should replace the Body of Christopher Creed, by Carol Plum-Ucci because the theme of global warming is greater than the themes in Christopher Creed.
BODY PARAGRAPH 1
What is the topic/idea of this paragraph?
What is Chris Creed about?
What quote(s) ideas from research will you use to help prove your points?
a. “The students were particularly struck by all the talk of suicide in the book”
b. “Along the way, he discovers how sheltered he and his friends have kept themselves, and how naïve they all are. In the end, they ostracize him as they have with everyone else different from them”

What example(s) from the book(s) will you use to help prove your points?
a. Chris Creed is about a kid that gets bullied
b. Book tries to find out what happens to Chris Creed and focuses on suicide, and running away
BODY PARAGRAPH 2
What is the topic/idea of this paragraph?
Why Chris Creed should be taken out of the Curriculum
What quote(s) ideas from research will you use to help prove your points?
a. “I don’t want to say that bullying is okay. But it’s a teaching tool for kids. It teaches them to get along with people, how to use power the victims—how to obtain power when not in power positions. How do we stop bullying and victimization? I hate to make this case in public. But we don’t’ entirely want to…”
b. “I don’t want to say that bullying is okay. But it’s a teaching tool for kids. It teaches them to get along with people, how to use power the victims—how to obtain power when not in power positions. How do we stop bullying and victimization? I hate to make this case in public. But we don’t’ entirely want to…”

What example(s) from the book(s) will you use to help prove your points?
a. Bullying is important but it is not a global scale problem that will destroy humanity
b. Suicides and runaways should be better taught in health class
BODY PARAGRAPH 3
What is the topic/idea of this paragraph?
What is the Inconvenient Truth about
What quote(s) ideas from research will you use to help prove your points?
a. “The Marshall Institue survey concluded that global temperatures are rising only.2”F per decade—three times less than what is predicted by computer models—and recommends a hiatus of 10 years before any CO2 emission limits are imposed so that more research can be conducted.
b.
What example(s) from the book(s) will you use to help prove your points?
a. Global warming is real and it exists
b. Humans cause global warming
BODY PARAGRAPH 4
What is the topic/idea of this paragraph?
Why should we put it in the curriculum
What quote(s) ideas from research will you use to help prove your points?
a. “The centre now officially expects global warming to resume at some point between 2009 and 2014”
b. “Educating multiple generations about the complexities, consequences, and controversies related to global warming is an enormous task. This challenge motivated Davis Guggenheim and Al Gore to turn an enhanced version of Gore’s multimedia slide show into a 21st; century teach-in on global warming”
What example(s) from the book(s) will you use to help prove your points?
a. Global warming is a big problem teen’s do not realize
b. Many people will teach young teens global warming does not exist, which is false
CONCLUSION
What should we now understand after reading your paper? Where idea(s) does your paper lead?
a. Chris Creed is not a book that is important enough to be in our curriculum
b. The Al Gore book is very important and should be taught in our High School