Thursday, November 27, 2008

Outlines - Thanksgiving Style

A few previous blog topics have dealt with outlines. When doing formal writing (such as essays, papers, or even something that you'll be submitting for work), it's best to do an outline to plan your thoughts and make sure you have the "map" of where you want to go!

So let's practice this! Make a simple outline telling about your Thanksgiving day. Imagine that this outline would then form the basis of your essay. Remember that outlines can be short. Just using a word or a phrase for each part is enough.

I'll start!

I.) Introduction
II.) Food preparation
III.) Cooking
IV.) Clean-up
V.) Conclusion

From that outline, it's pretty easy to see that my essay would have 5 paragraphs and that the body paragraphs would talk about the preparation, cooking, and clean-up (in that order). Wasn't that neat?

Now you try!

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mirlene
Thanksgiving day at a friend house.

We prepare everything together
we cook and clean

The dinner have a plan reussite.

Anonymous said...

Thanksgiving.

1. Introduction
2. Arrival at party
3. Celebration Dinner
4. Cleaning up
5. Conclusion




Michele T.

Anonymous said...

Thanksgiving day at my house.

My husband and I prepared all the food together.

I did my part of the cooking inside the house, while my husband did his part outside.

My daughter and I did the cleaning up after every thing was over.

Sheila W.

Anonymous said...

Thinkgiving is a time where all my family come together and giving thnk for life giving and life taken and eat good food wild do so.tiffanyf

Anonymous said...

1.Introduction
2.Dinner prepared
3.Family arrived
4.Watch movies
5.Conclusion

Dorothea M.

Anonymous said...

I spent Thanksgiving at my moms house.

I helped her set the table with the food.

The rest of the family showed up afterwards to eat.

I helped my mom clean up and I took some food to carry with me.

Finally we said our good-bye's and left.

Aneilia Persad

Anonymous said...

1) Thanksgiving the most important holiday in US.
2) Traditionally cook turkey and pumpkin cakes.
3) The preparation takes several hours.
4) After the celebration, it is time to clean up.
5) Americans enjoyed this day, because the family is altogether.

Adriana Wagner

Anonymous said...

Thanksgiving day at my mom's house.
1. Prepare a dessert
2. Get the kids ready
3. Arrive at 07:00 p.m.
4. Celebration dinner
5. Conclusion

Anonymous said...

Thanksgiving day at my mom's house.
1. Prepare a dessert
2. Get the kids ready
3. Arrive at 07:00 p.m.
4. Celebration dinner
5. Conclusion

Maria Rodriguez - Trelles

Anonymous said...

Thanksgiving at my sister's home:

1. Invite two friends for each family member
2. Arrival at party
3. Food, music, and games- simultaneously
4. Clean up/ create take-home plates
5. Go home

- Angelia McGirt