A topic outline is used to organize your thoughts before writing an essay or some similar type of text. This allows us to see everything that we want to include in our essay. It also helps us understand where each idea will be found and how we will address it. If we were writing about an average school day, the outline would look something like this:
This can be done in several ways, and it greatly depends on what you see as the typical day at school. Most often the things everyone does at school is changed classes on a schedule and socialize wherever you can. Those would be your two roman numerals as the main topics. Under those topics would be subtopics. In other words, what does following a schedule look like. Then subtopics under when you get to socialize. It could look something like this:
