Tragic+Hero+-+Macbeth+and+Hamlet

Final Due Date: ** Hard copy ** due Tuesday, March 1st by 3pm. You will not be allowed to print during 1st hour. Here is the order for you turn it in. This should all be stapled together. >
 * **Title Page (with running header to follow on subsequent pages) Make sure your Title and Running Header are appropriate to YOUR paper. **
 * **Abstract **
 * ** Reference page --- Just the sources cited and formatted correctly. You will turn in your annotated bibliography separately. **
 * **Annotated Bibliography **


 * Note the order below of how and when you'll turn things in along the way. It's up to you to keep yourself on track. I'm expecting great papers. Hold yourself to high expectations. **


 * Task: **
 * Write a comparative paper of six to eight pages in which you examine and evaluate the characters of Macbeth and Hamlet as characters and as tragic heroes. Use APA formatting for all aspects of the paper. Before you begin, create an annotated bibliography. Within each annotation, clearly and specifically explain how you can use the source when writing your paper. Note that this is how you //can use the source//, not necessarily how you will use the source because you don't know yet. You are to write the annotated bibliography first. Do not start on the paper and work backwards. ***CLASS OF 2016: YOU ARE NOT WRITING THE PAPER. THE REQUIREMENTS SHOULD GUIDE YOUR RESEARCH AND OUTLINE.*****


 * The focus of your paper is to examine the characters of Macbeth and Hamlet as tragic heroes. This will involve an examination of the development of the tragic hero from Aristotle to Shakespeare, and perhaps beyond. In addition to determining how each character does or does not qualify as a tragic hero based on the requirements you will also need to compare them. Your comparison should include the **** context created within (and perhaps even surrounding) each play. You will also need to examine and compare each character as a hero beyond the limitations of tragic hero, i.e. What makes a hero? Is Macbeth a hero? Is Hamlet? It may help you to focus your comparative analysis through a specific lens, such as honor, power, desperation, the influence and impact of the supernatural, themes relating to appearance versus reality. There are many other ways to go with this. **


 * Process: **

**1. Choose a specific scope for your paper. You do not each have to have separate topics, however, you are not to be working together. Too much conferring will lead you into collaboration on this project, which will translate as "cheating." This is an individual research projectjust like college.**

**2. Develop a guiding question for your paper. This can be simple. Turn aspects of the prompt into a guiding question.**

**3. Develop a preliminary thesis statement/guiding statement for your paper (related to your guiding question).**

**4. Conduct research and find 12 sources, in addition to the text of the plays, so this is 14 total** - four of your sources must be non-Web sources *(see below) - two of your sources are the play texts (these are non-Web sources, but do not count in the required four) - one of your sources will be to cite me and lecture. Cite me and lecture like this:

Kimball, M. (2016). //Study of Drama and Shakespeare // (Lecture). Portland, MI: St Patrick School.

**5. Continue developing your Annotated Bibliography. Cite all sources in APA format.** **Tell what the source is and how it has been used and how it will be used (see examples). **

**6. Develop a preliminary outline of your paper.** Turn this in, print or email or share with me.

**7. Further develop your Annotated Bibliography. Tell what the source is and how it has been used and how it will be used (see examples).**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 1.1em;">**8. Edit and restructure your outline.** Ask me for help as needed.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 1.1em;">**9. Further develop your Annotated Bibliography. Refer to your outline within the Annotated Bibliography.**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 1.1em;">**10. Finalize the structure of your outline.**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 1.1em;">**11. Finalize your Annotated Bibliography. Turn in a copy of your final Annotated Bibliography and a copy of your outline. I understand that your outline may still change.**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 1.1em;">**12-15 APPLY ONLY IF WRITING THE PAPER (SO THEY DO NOT APPLY TO THE CLASS OF 2016):**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 1.1em;">**12. Begin drafting your paper**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 1.1em;">**13. Work on editing and revisions.**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 1.1em;">**14. Make final revisions, including proof reading.**


 * Note the order of how and when you'll turn things in along the way. It's up to you to keep yourself on track. I'm expecting great papers. Hold yourself to high expectations. **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 1.1em;">**15.** **Turn in your work in the following order with APA style and formatting:**


 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 1.1em;">Title Page (with running header to follow on subsequent pages) **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 14.545454025268555px;">Abstract **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 14.545454025268555px;">Outline **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 14.545454025268555px;">Reference page --- Just the sources in order. You have already turned in your annotated bibliography separately. **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 1.1em;">***Finding sources:** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 1.1em;">**This is not as difficult as it sounds. Look, here are four automatic sources which you probably haven't yet thought:**
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 1.1em;">one source will be to cite the text of each play (the books in which we are reading the play - orange hardcover book for __Macbeth__, black paperback for __Hamlet__) **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 14.545454025268555px;">one source will be to cite the Perrine anthology (your textbook from which you have learned much about drama) **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 14.545454025268555px;">one source will be to cite <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 1.1em;">class lecture with Mrs. Kimball **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 1.1em;">cite LitCharts for each play because I'm directing you to use them **


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 14.545454025268555px;">Suggestions/examples of ****<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 1.1em;"> non-Web sources: **


 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 1.1em;">journal articles **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 1.1em;">books **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 1.1em;">other of my English textbooks be they from my college courses or the other classes I teach **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 1.1em;">study guides **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Tahoma; font-size: 1.1em;">teaching guides/unit plans **


 * *I have some great non-Web resources -- ask me.* **


 * Sources to avoid like the plague: **


 * **Other research papers or essays online**
 * **Wikipedia -- limit the use of Wikipedia**
 * **About.com**
 * **ChaCha**
 * **MonkeyNotes**
 * **Study.com**


 * Sources that I'm not going to be too keen on: **


 * **More than two "helper" sources (in addition to LitCharts) like Wikipedia, Sparknotes, Cliffsnotes, etc. --- these must be approved prior to you using them - Practically, it's best to go with Sparknotes and Cliffsnotes only (in addition to LitCharts).**