Sample Outline for Sculptors of History Name _______________

Sample Outline for Sculptors of History Name ________________

I. Early Life of Mark Twain
A. I was born on November 30, 1835 in Florida, MO.

B. My parents were John Marshall Clemens, an attorney, and Jane Lampton Clemens.

C. My father died when I was a boy, so my brother and I had to earn the living

for the family.

D.		I lived and is Samuel Langhorne Clemens.

II. Careers of Mark Twain

A.	I worked as a printer’s apprentice and typesetter in Hannibal. MO fron 1847-1850.
B.	I worked for the local newspaper the Hannibal Journal from 1850-1852.
C.	From 1857-1859, I was an apprentice on a riverboat learning to be a pilot.
D.	I served as an actual riverboat pilot from 1859-1860 when the War Between the States shut down riverboat traffic on the Mississippi.
E.	From 1860-1862, I worked for the government in the new state of Nevada and spent one year as a gold miner.
F.	I worked as a reporter for the Territorial Enterprise in Virginia City, Nevada, sometimes using the pseudonym Mark Twain from 1862-1864.
G.	Shortly after this, I wrote the short story, “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County which started my career as a novelist and short story writer.

Outlines should follow this form:

II.

So in other words, you can’t have an A without a B. You can’t have a I. without a II. You can’t have a 1 without a 2. You can’t have an a. without a b. Roman numerals can be titles of sections, but the main points in each section should be in sentence form. This is a sentence outline.