This is my basic layout for essays don't criticize just sharing with the community

<p>Opening
• Stand on prompt. (hook)
• Restate prompt
• Description of example 1
• Likewise, description of example 2
• Moreover, example 3 also proves that (keyword is true)
• Thesis</p>

<p>Body 1
• Consider the [first example]
• Background info sentence
• Another background info sentence
• Tie into thesis
• Tie into thesis
• Transition to next paragraph</p>

<p>Body 2
• the theme of (keyword in prompt) is illustrated in[second example]
• Background info sentence
• Another background info sentence
• Tie into thesis
• Tie into thesis
• Transition to next paragraph</p>

<p>Body 3
• the [third example] also portrays
• Background info sentence
• Another background info sentence
• Tie into thesis
• Tie into thesis
• Transition to next paragraph</p>

<p>Conclusion
• Restate opinion of prompt [using indeed]
• Restate thesis in different words
• Leave the reader with food for thought</p>

<p>List of terms I always use:
• Likewise
• Indeed
• Furthermore
• Moreover
• Consider the case
• On the contrary
• Thus
• However</p>

<p>Examples I like to use:</p>

<p>Literature
• Animal Farm
• Anthem
• The Great Gatsby
• Lord of the Flies
• Slaughterhouse Five
• The Good Earth
• Of Mice and Men
• Shakespeare- Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Hamlet, etc.
• Canterbury Tales
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• The Old Man and the Sea
• The Metamorphosis- Franz Kafka, not Ovid
• Grendel/Beowulf
• Candide
• Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”</p>

<p>History
• American Revolution
• French Revolution
• World War I and II
• Watergate
• Cuban Missle Crisis
• Civil War
• Civil Rights Movement
• Stock Market Crashes/ Depressions
• Enron Scandal
• 9/11</p>

<p>Science
• Galileo
• Newton
• Alexander Fleming- discovered penicillin
• Aristotle
• Plato
• Einstein</p>