Essay Outline
This can be used as a rough outline for your essay and the steps required toward completion.
Browse through each of the topics and subtopics and using your textbooks, notes, Internet and homework write down as many facts, details and examples from your literature and current events that you can find that will help support your thesis.
1. Organize these facts and examples under each topic.
2. Create a topic sentence that connects your facts to your main thesis.
3. Write your facts out in sentence form so that they help prove or support your topic sentence.
4. Focus on one paragraph at a time and get it typed into the computer and saved.
5. Print out a copy of each paragraph as you complete it and have a teacher or fellow student edit it for grammar and spelling and offer feedback on your content and organization.
6. As your paragraphs near completion, conference with a teacher to discuss transition sentences, thesis, conclusion and title.
I. Thesis Statement
A. Answer the unit question
II. Geography
A. Size
B. Natural boundaries
C. Natural resources
D. Natural infrastructure
E. Effect on topic
III. Climate
A. Different climates
B. Different uses
C. Amount and location
D. Effect on topic
IV. History
A. Early development
B. 20th century
C. Current events
D, Effect on topic
V. Culture
A. Ethnicities, Religion & Language
B. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Human Needs
C, Unity / Conflicts
D, Effect on topic
VI. Economy
A. Type of economy
B. 6 factors of economic success
C. Effect on Topic
VII. Literature
A. Respond to the last question from each story or poem in paragraph form.
B. Use specific evidence from the literature to support your opinion
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