Outlining Practice
Topic: Taking a Camping Trip
camp health and safety, selecting equipment, making a fire, safety tips, food and pans and such, purifying water, presence of fuel, knives and hatchets and axes, chopping wood, selecting clothing, personal health, tents, safety when hiking, safety in the water, choosing a campsite, sleeping bags, planning, setting up camp, presence of water, arranging the wood, dry ground, setting up tents
I._________
    A. Selecting equipment
        1.________
        2.________
        3.________
        4. Tents
    B.________
II. Setting up camp
    A.________
        1. Dry ground
        2.________
        3. Presence of water
    B.________
    C.________
        1. Chopping wood
        2.________
    D.________
III. Camp health and safety
    A.________
    B.________
        1. Safety when hiking
        2.________		 Topic: Endangered Eagles
Effects on offspring, Scientists, Demand for lumber and land,  Belief that eagles were destroying crops and livestock, 1972--banning of DDT, Enormous decline in 1960's, Hunters, Effects on eagles' food, Laws, General facts about endangered eagles, Reasons eagles were endangered, Lumber mills, Ways eagles were helped, New homes and businesses, Bounties that encouraged hunting, Drop in numbers in the 1940s and '50s, Pesticides, 1940--the Bald Eagle Protection Act, 1973--the Endangered Species Protection Act
I. General facts about endangered eagles
    A. Drop in numbers in the 1940s and '50s
    B.________
II. Reasons eagles were endangered
    A._________
        1.________
        2. Bounties that encouraged hunting
    B.________
        1. Lumber mills
        2. New homes and businesses
    C. Pesticides
        1.________
        2.________
III. Ways eagles were helped
    A.________
        1. 1940--the Bald Eagle Protection Act
        2.________
        3. 1973--the Endangered Species Protection Act
    B.________

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Topic: The automobile has become the American Nightmare
kills 265,000 and injures millions annually, road rage and reckless driving have increased, better city design to decrease auto dependence, leading source of air pollution,  alternatives to the automobile, main means of transportation, too many people dependent on the car, large SUV's: rollovers and danger to smaller cars, more cars and more roads mean more traffic congestion, average car: 5 tons of carbon dioxide each year, contributes to acid rain and smog, leading cause of death and injury, new dangers with 2 recent developments, public transportation


I. Main means of transportation
    A. Too many people dependent on the car
    B.________
II.________
    A.________
    B. Contributes to acid rain and smog
III.________
    A. Kills 265,000 and injures millions annually
    B._________
        1._________
        2. Road rage and reckless driving have increased
IV._________
    A.________
    B.________