Bucket List Writing

Which one is the Thesis Statement?

• Broadly speaking, bucket list items can be categorized into travel and adventure, learning new skills, and settling an unfnished business.

• Travel and adventure are a popular kind of bucket list item.

• Learning a new skill boosts our feeling of satisfaction because it involves curiosity, challenge, and confidence

• Settling an unfinished business gives us peace.

Which one is the concluding sentence?

• Settling an unfinished business gives us peace.

• Travel and adventure are a popular kind of bucket list item.

• Learning a new skill boosts our feeling of satisfaction because it involves curiosity, challenge, and confidence

• To conclude, many kinds of items can fill a bucket list.

What's the best supporting details for this idea:

Learning a new skill boosts our feeling of satisfaction because it involves curiosity, challenge, and confidence

• Traveling enables us to explore places we have never been to,reminisce about our past, or escape from our daily monotonous lives to recharge our spirit.

• At the start, we feel curious about a task. Then we challenge ourselves to do it. Once we master the new skill, there will be a feeling of accomplishment

• Carrying an emotional baggage like holding a grudge, guilt, or helplessness is not good for our mental health.

• There are ultimate items that have to be done to make our lives worth living and to give peace of mind.

Helen Keller once wrote, “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” Since the dawn of human history, men have taken risks to make their lives more meaningful. Some have courted dangers to create new things, to craft success, to save others’ lives, or to solve problems. Others have taken risks that involve physical and mental dangers to a whole new level. An adventure item on a bucket list is popular because of several reasons.

What's the technique?

• Setting/ background of the topic

• A question leading to the topic

• Shocking fact

• A quotation

Our earth is very old and on its last dying breaths. We have been occupying the earth for a long time and we have done more damage than good to it. We have been causing quite a number of environmental problems during ourtime here. However, some of us have begun taking action to save our blue planet. There are a lot of environmental issues we need to solve. An environmental bucket list may include items such as reducing waste, reusing old stuff, and upcycling.

What's the technique?

• Setting/ background of the topic

• A question leading to the topic

• Shocking fact

• A quotation

Is a big salary the only thing that motivates us to do a job? Teaching is not the kind of job that will make us rich but we can inspire others. Great teachers encourage their students to achieve great things in life. Great teachers do not become great in just one day. They have experienced lots of ups and downs before achieving greatness.

Great teachers must have exceptional teaching capability and quality: great teaching skills, passion for educating people, and love for learning. Many young people nowadays want to teach. I have put becoming a teacher at the

top of my bucket list because of three reasons.

What's the technique?

• Setting/ background of the topic

• A question leading to the topic

• Shocking fact

• A quotation

A study in Norway found that people who smile and laugh a lot live longer than those who do not. I read about

it when I was in the second year of high school and it gave me a great idea. I had neither been a straight-A student nor a talented athlete. It was difficult to make my parents proud of me but I was certain I could make them a little happier. Our family had been through a lot of hardships that year and my parents looked exhausted every day. Having a strong sense of humor, I wanted them to smile and laugh more. I wanted them to be healthy and live a long happy life. I wanted to cheer them up. I had to entertain them every day. My ultimate bucket list item was to learn more about and practice stand-up comedy, storytelling, and impersonation.

What's the technique?

• Setting/ background of the topic

• A question leading to the topic

• Shocking fact

• A quotation