Ms. Nicoll History 2017 
 
 
Name: Jocelyn Baker Date: 10/18/17

Essay Outline for ​7th Grade 

Part 2: Complete Sentences 
 
The discoveries of tea, the manufacture of paper, wood-blocking
Thesis Statement
printing, the compass, and gunpowder influenced Medieval China.
Main 
Statement: 
Tea was very important to Medieval China.

● Legend tea discovered by the Chinese emperor

Point 1:  Shennong
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_tea_in_China
● Earliest records of tea drinking
● Han Dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE) used tea as
Body Paragraph medicine
1: Point 2: 
● Beverage drunk for pleasure on social occasions
from the Tang Dynasty (618–907 CE)
Tea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_tea_in_China
● Whipped powdered tea popular during the Song
Dynasty (960-1279)
● Later became accustomed to drinking tea from
Point 3: 
leaves
http://www.china.org.cn/learning_chinese/Chinese_te
a/2011-07/15/content_22999489.htm
Transition:  Tea was used a long time ago, and is still used today.

Main  Paper and wood-blocking were very important to

Statement:  Medieval China.
● Technique for printing text, images or patterns
Point 1: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodblock_printing
Body Paragraph
2: ● Earliest woodblock printing known is in color
Point 2:  ● Han Dynasty printed in three colors on silk
Paper and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodblock_printing
wood-blocking
● Used of ritual texts
Point 3:  ● Used for books
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodblock_printing
Transition:  This is how we still have some of these artifacts today.
Body Paragraph Main  Compass and gunpowder were very important to

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3: Statement:  Medieval China.

Compass and ● Compass was used between the 2nd century BC

gunpowder and 1st century AD
Point 1:  ● Not used for direction, but rather for fortune
telling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Great_Inventions
● Form of a magnetic needle floating in a bowl of
Point 2:  water
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Great_Inventions
● Discovered in the 9th century by Chinese
Point 3:  alchemists searching for an elixir of immortality
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Great_Inventions
These are important things discovered by Medieval
Transition: 
China.
The discoveries of tea, the manufacture of paper,
Thesis 
Restatement: 
wood-blocking printing, the compass, and gunpowder
were very important to Medieval China.
What you said 
in Body 1: 
Tea was important
Conclusion
What you said 
Paragraph in Body 2: 
Paper and wood-blocking were important

What you said 

in Body 3: 
Compass and gunpowder were important

All of these inventions helped shape China into what it

Summary: 
is today.
 

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