Outline for Junior Paper

2.  How does the literature reflect the
historical period?
 What historical issues come up in this
novel?
 In what way (if any) does the novel deal
with The American Dream?
 What social commentary does the author
make in this novel?

3.  How does the character in the literature
symbolize the historical era?
 How does the literature satirize the political
environment, economic forces, or social
values of a period or movement?
 How do the ideas presented in the novel
change throughout the decades of
American history?

4. • How did Black Like Me reflect the Civil Rights
struggles of the 1950s?
•How did the era of the Great Depression
influence John Steinbeck’s philosophy regarding
injustice, man’s spirituality, and pursuit of the
American Dream in The Grapes of Wrath?

5. Technology
War of the Worlds
War Evolution
Imperialism

6.  Anti-war
 Anti-imperialism
He did this by putting us in the place of the
society that was being attacked and taken
over.

7. America and
Wealth, I
success
opportunity
Immigration
American
Dream
How immigrants
Working
treated each other conditions

8.  Brainstorm questions and connections for
your novel.

9.  This essay is different from others you
have written.
 For this essay what do you need to
introduce?
1. The novel
2. The historical background

10. Format 1: Alternating Format 2: All history, all
history and literature literature
TS#1: History argument- TS#1: History argument-
topic area 1 topic area 1
TS#2: Literary analysis- TS#2: History argument-
topic area 1 topic area 2
TS#3: History argument- TS#3: Literary analysis-
topic area 2 topic area 1
TS#4: Literary analysis- TS#4: Literary analysis-
topic area 2 topic area 2