Outline for 4-Paragraph Essay

Main Point or Thesis of Essay: Parents can be different than you thought.

Bell word: different

Paragraph 1 -- Opening

Hook: Did you think your parents could be any different than they already are?

Comment on the hook: In TKAM, Scout realized that her father didn’t just read all day; he even had a nickname, One Shot Finch, because he never missed a gun shot.

Comment on the hook: My dad had a nickname too, but his name was Bo because he had such bad bowlegs, people thought he was going to fall over!

Thesis: (with bell word) Our parents may be DIFFERENT, but I love them anyway.

Paragraph 2

TS (Main Idea, Topic, or Thesis): The differences found in Atticus

2 Echo words to be used: Out of the ordinary    Divers

SD: One thing Scout never knew about Atticus is that he was called One Shot Finch

        CM: They didn’t even think their dad had the guts to kill a fly!

        CM Nevertheless, he could shoot any animal without flinching and “A little to the right.”

    SD: Scout found out the hard way that her dad loved to hunt.

        CM: When a rabid dog named Tim Johnson was roaming the street, her dad was asked to shoot it down.

        CM: Scout was shocked that he would even think about shooting an innocent animal like Tim Johnson

  

CS: Scout finds a lot of differences out of the ordinary about her father.

Paragraph 3

TS (Main Idea, Topic, or Thesis) My dad also has a lot of differences that I never knew of before.

2 Echo words to be used Individual   Particular 

   

SD: One of the things that makes my dad an certain individual is he was the captain of the football team, president of the band, and vale dictorian.

        CM: Many people would call him an all around guy, a geek, jock, and a nerd.

        CM: This is a very strange, but fascinating thing about my dad.

    SD: Also, when he was in college, people would call him Bo.

        CM: One reason he was called Bo, was because he was so bowlegged, people thought he was going to fall over.

        CM: This was a problem when he was playing rugby because he thought that someone was going to throw the ball right through his legs.

CS: These are just a few different things I learned about my dad.

Paragraph 4

Hook (the same as paragraph 1, or different)  I bet you that you can think of a way right now about how your parents could be different.

Echo word (could be bell word): different

Comment on the hook: Your mom and your dad could be two different people than they are today.

Comment on the hook: My dad was a geeky jock, and now his a successful engineer.

Re-statement, in slightly different words, of the thesis:

I believe that since are parents are different, we can feel that we can be different from them.