Midterm Outline Assignment

Midterm Outline Assignment
Due Sunday, October 23 @ 11:59 pm

For this assignment, which is 20% of your midterm grade, you will be writing an outline. Before you start your outline, though, you may find it helpful to first accomplish the following three steps.
1. Review your notes of the Module 4 readings.
2. Watch the 1969 performance of American Ballet Theatre’s Giselle. After watching this ballet, decide if you think that Giselle supports or challenges traditional gender roles. Or, do you think that the ballet both supports and challenges traditional gender roles? This position will be the foundation of your thesis statement.
Giselle Ballet
3. Consider the following questions. Use the previous modules’ readings to inform your response.
What is the overall story of this ballet? (When you look up the history behind this ballet, remember to record the sources you use so that you can cite them later.)
Who are the major characters?
What two moments seem to be the most important in terms of how gender politics are presented?
What are the movement qualities in these scenes? (Body part, verb, adverb may help.)
What was interesting or strange as you watched this video regarding how gender is presented?
These questions are meant to help you with developing material for your midterm outline and paper.

Outline Requirements
This assignment will help you organize your ideas to write your Midterm Reflective Paper. You will begin your outline by deciding on your position concerning gender representation in the ballet Giselle. Your outline should include the information below and follow a similar organization.
Introduction
Short background of Giselle in bullet points
A thesis statement (1–2 sentences)

Body
Topic sentence A containing one point related to your thesis (From ACT I).
List the supporting scenes from Giselle along with 2–3 bulleted supporting ideas for each point.
Use ideas and quotes from a course reading that supports your argument. Cite at least one idea or quote.
Topic sentence B containing another point related to your thesis (From ACT II).
List the supporting scenes from Giselle along with 2–3 bulleted supporting ideas for each point.
Use ideas and quotes from a course reading that supports your argument. Cite at least one idea or quote.
Use any of the course readings to support your interpretation. You may use any readings you have been assigned up to this point.

Conclusion
Explain how your thoughts regarding your thesis are interesting or important.
OR
Suggest ways to change the ballet to reflect the opposite of your argument.

Works Cited
Cite all sources in MLA format.
Refer to the Purdue Owl MLA Formatting and Style Guide and Zotero.
More about Thesis Statement Guidelines
A good portion of your grade here regards your thesis. Your thesis statement must be specific in how you state your main position. Your thesis statement should ideally be one sentence in length. Avoid broad language. Focus your thesis statement on articulating one main argument of how you think Giselle represents and/or challenges themes of gender. Your reader should be able to tell what your main argument is in addition to how you plan to support that argument.

Question prompts for developing your thesis
How are the issues about gender represented in Giselle? Do you think this ballet challenges the ideas in the readings? Do you think the ballet reproduces the ideas in the readings? Why? You must come to a consensus on one position to argue.

More about Body Guidelines
Formulate your outline by listing a topic sentence for each point that supports your position for the paper. Each topic sentence should support the thesis.
Underneath the topic sentence, list the supporting clips/scenes from Giselle and 2-3 bulleted supporting ideas, using the course readings to support your interpretation.

Remember to review the rubric to understand how your individual thesis and outline will be graded.

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