1. Bucketing: Getting Ready to Write
Name: ________________________
Bucketing: Getting Ready to Write
Directions: Look back over the documents and organize them into your final buckets. First label on the line what your major topic or theme will be for your bucket, then place in the bucket which documents could help you support your topic/theme. Remember these buckets will be you BODY paragraphs of your essay.
Documents you could use as evidence:
Main idea/
topic/theme:
Thesis Development and Road Map
On the chickenfoot below, write your thesis (road map). Your thesis is always an opinion that answers the document based question (How did the Nile Shape Ancient Egypt) Your thesis is created using the labels (theme/topic) of your buckets, and lists the topics you will examine in order to prove your thesis.

2. Name_____________________ Ms. McIntyre Color____________________
Date_______________________
DBQ Outline Guide
How Did the Nile Shape Ancient Egypt?
Working Title _________________________________________
I. Intro paragraph
Grabber__________________________________________________
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Background (the who, what, when, where, why)
Stating the question with key terms defined
Thesis and road map (chicken foot in a sentence or two)

3. II. First Body Paragraph
Baby thesis for bucket one:__________________________________
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Evidence (#1)
Evidence (#2)
Argument
III. Second Body Paragraph
Baby thesis for bucket two:__________________________________
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Evidence (#1) ________________________________________________________
Evidence (#2)
Argument

4. IV. Third Body Paragraph
Baby thesis for bucket three:________________________________
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Evidence (#1)
Evidence (#2)
Argument
V. Conclusion
Restatement of your thesis along with an insight that clinches your argument:
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