Can someone help me design a general outline for my essay ? Due tomorrow?

Question

I am a college student. The essay is about my reading and writing history and it has to be 5 pages long. I was thinking about breaking it down to elementary, middle, and high school. Then describing things that I did in each level. If you cant help me with a general outline at least remind me of some specific things we used to read and write.

Answer 1

Elementary
- Fables & Fairy Tales
- Fun With Dick & Jane
- A PhD in Dr. Seuss

Middle
- Vocabulary, Spelling, and Sentence Structure
- Poetry & Prose
- Creative Writing 101

High School
- Shaking Shakespeare
- Classic Literature from Austen to Yeats
- Novels, Fact or Fiction

Answer 2

I like the format of the three sections of school, I think that's a good organizational system.

You could do some focus on journals if you did those in school. In elementary it was pictures and a few words thrown in, in middle it was a few sentences, in high school it was a paragraph or two. Also you could mention the topics of journal entries.

With reading, it went from story books that we just sort of read, to chapter books at the end of elementary where we started easy book reports (Bridge to Terebithia, Box Car Kids), to real book reports in middle over beginning classics and novels of our choosing (Outsiders, Summer of my German Soldier, Number the Stars). In high school we did literary analysis (Lord of the Flies, Ethan Frome, Sound and the Fury, Grapes of Wrath).

In elementary we wrote mostly through pictures. In middle we wrote short papers, crazy stories and maybe some simple reports. In high school it was research papers, longer stories, and different things like screenplays.

Hope some of this helps, I'm not really sure what you're looking for.

Answer 3

Reading / Writing History Outline

1. Opening sentence
a. thesis statement
b. possible conclusions
c. some basic information about levels of your reading/writing

2. Elementary writing
a. writing style
b. teachers
c. types of writing

3. Middle school

4. High school

5. conclusions

that should get you started.

Answer 4

A.elementary
1. ABC's
ii. phonics
2. Words
ii. three letter words, etc.
3. Spelling
ii. more difficult levels
4. Reading
ii. dick and jane books, and then later on goosbumps animorphs etc.
5. Writing stories or events that happend to us. usually one paragraph and sequenced.

B. Middle
1. writing became more complex.
i. show not tell
ii. paragraphs
iii. organization
2. Books became longer. ie. preteen books. like caroline b. cooney or chris crutcher

C. High School
1. Introduction to thesis statements
i. higher level book reports
ii. research papers
2. literature books
i. 1984, the scarlet letter, lord of the flies etc.

Answer 5

I agree with the first person's repsonse, but however include books that changed you, dont just list them. If you compare the literature to life obstacles you conquered it would be a more interesting paper.

Answer 6

Did your parents or grandma or a teacher read with you - what was thier influence.

Do you remember your fav childhood book, teen book, compare with what you read now.

"As a baby I ate up books. Literally chewed the edges off of them. Today I devour books in a whole differnt way."