Name

Solar System Unit

Planet Paper Outline

1^st Paragraph: Introduction Paragraph

(This paragraph is to introduce the information of your paper to your audience. It grabs their attention.)

Topic Sentence

(a question, surprising comment, or statement)

1^st Important Fact

(write like this is an information sentence)

2^nd Important Fact

(write like this is an information sentence)

3^rd Important Fact

(write like this is an information sentence)

Ending Sentence

(restate the topic sentence or personal response)

**You can add more facts if you choose to do so, but remember that you will have to have a paragraph about those facts.

2^nd Paragraph: Information Paragraph for Important Fact #1

(This paragraph is to give the details about Important Fact #1 and to support the fact.)

Topic Sentence

(a question, surprising comment, or statement about important fact #1)

1^st Information Sentence

(support your important fact #1)

Detail Sentence

(supports the 1^st info. sentence)

2^nd Information Sentence

(support your important fact #1)

Detail Sentence

(supports the 2^nd info. sentence)

Ending Sentence

(restate the topic sentence or personal response)

**You can add another information sentence, but remember to include a detail sentence to support it.

3rd Paragraph: Information Paragraph for Important Fact #2

(This paragraph is to give the details about Important Fact #2 and to support the fact.)

Topic Sentence

(a question, surprising comment, or statement about important fact #2)

1^st Information Sentence

(support your important fact #2)

Detail Sentence

(supports the 1^st info. sentence)

2^nd Information Sentence

(support your important fact #2)

Detail Sentence

(supports the 2^nd info. sentence)

Ending Sentence

(restate the topic sentence or personal response)

**You can add another information sentence, but remember to include a detail sentence to support it.

4th Paragraph: Information Paragraph for Important Fact #3

(This paragraph is to give the details about Important Fact #3 and to support the fact.)

Topic Sentence

(a question, surprising comment, or statement about important fact #3)

1^st Information Sentence

(support your important fact #3)

Detail Sentence

(supports the 1^st info. sentence)

2^nd Information Sentence

(support your important fact #3)

Detail Sentence

(supports the 2^nd info. sentence)

Ending Sentence

(restate the topic sentence or personal response)

**You can add another information sentence, but remember to include a detail sentence to support it.

5th Paragraph: Closing Paragraph

(This paragraph is to summarize your other paragraphs.)

Topic Sentence

(a question, surprising comment, or statement)

Detail

(write like this is an information sentence)

Detail

(write like this is an information sentence)

Detail

(write like this is an information sentence)

Ending Sentence

(restate the topic sentence or personal response)

**You can add more details if you choose to do so, but remember that you should be restating details from the other paragraphs.

References: (Last page of paper)

When you write your bibliography, list all of your references. Formats for each type of publication are below:

• Web Site: Author(s) if appropriate. Title of Site or webpage. URL of the site, date of publication (the earliest copyright year listed).
• Book: Author(s). Title of Book. Edition. Location of publisher: Name of Publisher, year of publication.
• Encyclopedia: Title of encyclopedia, volume of encyclopedia used. Location of publisher: Name of publisher, year of publication, pages where the article is located.
• Magazine or Journal: Author(s). “Title of article.” Name of Magazine, Volume. issue (date): pages where the article is located.

Author(s) are listed last name first, first name or initials (as cited in the publication).

For example: Zoomastronomy.com would be cited as follows:

Col, Jeananda. Zoonastronomy.com. http://www.zoomastronomy.com. 1999.