Synthesis Outline

Name______Date______Synthesis Outline

Directions: Complete the outline using bullet points. Make note of which source you use (by source #, author, or title) and any direct quotes you will use. Essential Question: Is scapegoating a person or group of people the inevitable outcome of a society under stress?

Introduction: Invite readers into your Ex.: History teaches us that scapegoating is part of living in a society. … essay. Talk about the topic and build audience interest in it.

State your answer Ex.: Whenever a community faces a stressful event or a harmful situation, in order to (position) to the essential alleviate the pain, we often try to find a scapegoat to take the blame. That group or question in a non- person becomes … formulaic way.

Body 1: Give an Ex.: One way that societies scapegoat is to look for a group that exists on the fringe introduction (or a brief of society. That fringe group, or even a fringe individual, because of their role as “the summary) to your first other,” is used to explain everything that is wrong in the world. … example. Your example can be either the first point you are making OR the first piece of evidence you will be using to support your claim.

Provide specific evidence. Ex.: Goody Osburn is just such a fringe individual who the rest of Salem in The Crucible sees as the problem. They wish to maintain the perfection of their Puritan ways, but Goody Osburn represents the unclean, the unconverted, the other.

Explain how the example By choosing Good Osburn as one of the first scapegoats, the girls, and ultimately and evidence supports Salem society, can pin all their fears of a degenerating culture on one individual, and your position regarding then eventually on all individuals who oppose the process of the court. The court the essential question. becomes the representation of all that is good, as those who fail to confess come to represent all that is bad.

Body 2: Give an introduction (or a brief summary) to your second example. Your example can be either the second point you are making OR the second piece of evidence you will be using to support your claim.

Provide specific evidence.

Explain how the example and evidence supports your position regarding the essential question. Body 3: Give an introduction (or a brief summary) to your third example. Your example can be either the third point you are making OR the third piece of evidence you will be using to support your claim.

Provide specific evidence.

Explain how the example and evidence supports your position regarding the essential question. Conclusion: Provide a summation of Ex.: Members on the fringe of society, through economics, social status, religious or how your points and/or political views, or even by their gender, become representatives who embody our examples support your fears. These individuals exhibit independence and freedom from the conventionality position on the essential of society and … question.

Extend the topic in a new Ex.: So many sources (as cited here) indicate that scapegoating is a pervasive issue and interesting way. For and not likely to end as long as we believe the other in our society to be threatening to example: in what ways our own safety and security. Only through open dialogue and … can we expect scapegoating to continue? Can it be abated or curbed? Are there positive outcomes or unintended consequences?