Devising an Outline Natalia Quiñonez Agurto

Peer Pressure

I. INTRODUCTION

Thesis Statement: Desperate to conform to the values of

their friends, teen s may give up interest in school,
hobbies, and even certain people.

II. BODY

A. Topic Sentence: Teens lose or hide their interest in

school.

1. They adopt a negative attitude.

2. They stop participating in class.

a. They do not raise their hand or seem anxious to

learn.

b. They come to class without their assignments.

3. They do not joint in after- school activities.

a. A teen may be curious about an activity.

b. However, she/ he do not dare to join.

B. Topic Sentence: She / he gives up private hobbies or

pleasures to be part of the crowd.

1. Certain hobbies may be put off, so the teen will be

accepted not laughed at.

a. She / he may drop these interests.

b. She / he may exchange them for riding in cars or

ganging out in the mall.

2. Teens may give up their own values and mock others.

a. They may call a girl who reads a “creep”.

b. They may call a boy who studies a “nerd”.

 3. They may lose interest in their private pleasures
forever.

a. It may not be until they become an adult that they

wish they had continued the piano, ballet, or
astronomy.

C. Topic Sentence: They may give up the people they love.

1. They sacrifice old friends.

2. Potential boyfriends and girlfriends may be rejected,

too.

3. They cut themselves off from, their families.

a. They may be ashamed that their parents are too

poor, too conventional, too different.

b. They refuse to participate in family get together

or spend time with younger brother or sisters.

III. CONCLUSION

Closing statement: It is true that many teenagers face

the pressures of being forced to take
drugs, to perform dangerous stunts,
to do risky things.

Restate thesis: But a more common and perhaps more

painful pressure is to conform to the
crowd by giving up part of oneself.