This is what I use to help me organize my writing.
What is a planning sheet?
Define evidence.
What is something that furnishes proof?
Define keepsake.
What is a small item kept in memory of the person who gave it or originally owned it?
This is the who or what of the verb.
What is the subject of a sentence?
Person , place , or thing.
What is a noun?
This is how paragraphs are in an essay.
What are 5?
Define infer.
What is implies arriving at a conclusion by reasoning from evidence?
Define agenda.
What is a list of items?
Definition of a transitive verb.
What is a verb that takes a direct object?
Takes the place of a noun.
What is a pronoun?
This is a sentence that tells what my essay is about.
What is a thesis statement?
Define personification.
What is the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form?
Define queue.
What is a line or sequence of thigs?
Definition of a prepositional phrase.
What is a group of words beginning with a preposition and ending with a noun or pronoun?
Modifies a noun and pronoun.
What is an adjective?
This is how many ideas go into my thesis statement.
What are 3?
Define theme.
What is the message the author is trying to teach you?
Define debut.
What is a person's first appearance or performance in a particular capacity or role?
Definition of an independent clause.
What is a clause that can stand alone?
Expresses emotion, but has no real connection with the rest of the sentence.
What is an interjection?
These are the words I should not use in my essay.
What are "I", contractions, pronouns at the beginning of sentences, slang, and overused vocabulary (fun)?
Define main idea.
What is thee most important or central thought of a paragraph or larger section of text, which tells the reader what the text is about?
Define inhabitants.
What is a person or animal that lives in or occupies a place?
Name all the different types of sentence purposes.
What are: declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory?
Types of verbs.
What are action, linking, and helping?