Thesis and Oral Defense Resources

Use the following resources to help you though the TOD writing process:

Presentation Times

Rubrics

• Paper rubric
• Oral defense rubric

In Class Resources

• Project introduction
• Concept map
• Thesis and essential question development
• Paragraph map

English Resources

Online versions of texts:

• The Odyssey, translated by Robert Fitzgerald (only available as a PDF to download)
• Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare (full text)
• All Quiet on the Western Front (full text)
• Animal Farm (chapter by chapter - easier to read)
• Animal Farm (full text - easier to search)
• 1984 (chapter by chapter - easier to read)
• 1984 (full text - easier to search)
• Lord of the Flies
• Macbeth
• Catcher in the Rye

Guide to citing your sources (how to create your Works Cited page and set up your parenthetical citations)

History Resources

• Unit resources on the website (see the left sidebar and browse through the unit)
• Unit packets (from last year)
• Flow of history
• Your textbook (I know, crazy...)

Writing Resources

• Our writing resources describing the different parts of a critical paragraph and a paper are here.

Oral defense and visual aid information for the TOD is here.