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.

Name_____________________ Ms. McIntyre Color____________________ Date_______________________ DBQ Outline Guide How Did the Nile Shape Ancient Egypt? Working Title _________________________________________ I. Intro paragraph Grabber__________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ 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)

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

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