Bucketing
Look over all the documents and organize them into your final buckets. Use either a two- or a four- bucket format. Write final bucket labels under each bucket and place the letters of the documents in the buckets where they belong. It is okay to put a document in more than one bucket Remember, your buckets are going to become your body paragraphs.
On one of the chicken feet below, write your thesis and your roadmap. Your thesis is always an opinion and answers the Mini-Q question. The roadmap is created from your bucket labels and lists the topic areas you will examine in order to prove your thesis.