Essay Resources
Bucketing
Open and print the file below, these will be the buckets you will use to organize your ideas. Look over all the documents and organize them into your final buckets. Write final bucket labels under each bucket and place the letter of the documents in the buckets where they belong. It is okay to put a document in more than one bucket. Remember, your buckets are going to become your paragraphs.
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Thesis Development and Roadmap
Use the chickenfoot below to write your thesis and roadmap. Your thesis is always an opinion and answers your document based question. The roadmap is created from your bucket labels and lists the topic areas you will examine in order to prove your thesis.
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From Thesis to Essay Writing
Use the essay outline guide to assist you in writing your essay.
Working Title
Paragraph #1
Grabber
Background
Stating the question with any key terms defined and described
Thesis and roadmap
Paragraph #2
Baby Thesis for bucket one
Evidence: supporting detail from documents with document citation
Argument: connecting evidence to the thesis
Paragraph #3
Baby Thesis for bucket two
Evidence
Argument
Paragraph #4
Baby Thesis for bucket three
Evidence
Argument
Paragraph #5
Conclusion: Restatment of the main idea along with possible insight or wrinkle
Working Title
Paragraph #1
Grabber
Background
Stating the question with any key terms defined and described
Thesis and roadmap
Paragraph #2
Baby Thesis for bucket one
Evidence: supporting detail from documents with document citation
Argument: connecting evidence to the thesis
Paragraph #3
Baby Thesis for bucket two
Evidence
Argument
Paragraph #4
Baby Thesis for bucket three
Evidence
Argument
Paragraph #5
Conclusion: Restatment of the main idea along with possible insight or wrinkle