Outline For Final Paper

What is the question you are answering in your own words?
Should The House on Mango Street be replaced with Tom Friedman’s The World Is Flat? Why?
What is your thesis statement? This sets up the entire paper with your focus and direction.
Our current curriculum for English states that we must read certain books throughout the year, these include Catcher in The Rye, and Montana 1948; however, what the curriculum is lacking is a book that students need to read. I have found this book, it is The World is Flat, this novel shows what the world is really like, and I will propose to remove the House on Mango Street from our curriculum to be replaced with the better choice, The World is Flat.

BODY PARAGRAPH 1
What is the topic/idea of this paragraph?
The World Is Flat will be beneficial for a student’s knowledge of the current business world, which is more important than a coming of age tale.

What quote(s) ideas from research will you use to help prove your points?
a. “Friedman describes three primary changes at the dawn of the 21st century as the keys to the changing world. One is the addition of China, India, the former Soviet Union and other countries with a combined population of 3 billion to the global world economy. The second is technological changes such as the Internet that have made distance less of a factor. And the third is the shift from hierarchical, vertical power structures in business and government to democratic, diffuse ones in which it is easier for individuals to make their own destinies.”

b. This book addresses ideas that are more important to teenagers and benefit them more than The House on Mango Street could.

What example(s) from the book(s) will you use to help prove your points?
a. In The World is Flat he references these ideas many times because he writes the book around these ideas.

b. I will state a story from the House on Mango Street and compare the ideas of at novel up to those of The World is Flat.

BODY PARAGRAPH 2
What is the topic/idea of this paragraph?
The World is Flat explains the future of the business world and things to come rather than tells a story of a teenager’s childhood.

What quote(s) ideas from research will you use to help prove your points?
a. “According to Friedman's thesis, the world is becoming more networked. Federal leaders either can be part of that by connecting with leaders elsewhere in the world, or they can be left out.”


b. In the one of the articles I read, it explains how Tom Friedman’s novel addresses the future of our business world.

What example(s) from the book(s) will you use to help prove your points?
a. This book addresses problems we might face in the future such as the world becoming ‘flat’ meaning that the countries in the world will eventually be equals in having the same amount of resources.

b. I will take examples from the book and apply them in my essay to show how they will be more beneficial to the education of a teenager,

BODY PARAGRAPH 3
What is the topic/idea of this paragraph?
The House on Mango Street will not be beneficial to the education of today’s students.

What quote(s) ideas from research will you use to help prove your points?
a. “Esperanza is a young version of an aging widow who spends her days rocking on the front porch watching the movements of her neighbors. She knows about everyone living on Mango Street.”

b. What can we learn from this novel that we haven’t already learned from our current experience in life?

What example(s) from the book(s) will you use to help prove your points?
a. Quoting from The House on Mango Street will show how it is not truly a book that will not educate students in things they will need for their future.

b. I will use examples from a review I found from a credible source and show that The House on Mango Street presents the wrong ideas.

BODY PARAGRAPH 4
What is the topic/idea of this paragraph?
The World is Flat, has ideas that can be applied to today’s world in a more effective way than any of the ideas from The House On Mango Street.

What quote(s) ideas from research will you use to help prove your points?
a. I plan to quote directly from the The World is Flat to show some key ideas in the novel.

b. I plan to show how The House On Mango Street is truly not appropriate reading for our school.

What example(s) from the book(s) will you use to help prove your points?
a. “Readers of World Trade will be familiar with his list: Internet communication, outsourcing, off-shoring, synchronized supply chains. What they may not fully appreciate is the extent which, according to Friedman, these different elements have already converged past the tipping point of no return.”

CONCLUSION
What should we now understand after reading your paper? Where idea(s) does your paper lead to?
a. The book The World Is Flat, should replace the book the House on Mango Street.

b. The World is Flat is a great book that informs the children of today of the current business and the future of the business world.