Expository Essay
How do you hook your reader?
Possible answers:Definition, bold statement, (famous) quote, fact
What is the purpose of an expository essay?
To explain a topic.
What change, if any, should be made to this sentence: Your brain is responsible for controlling the muscles that you move intentional.
A. Add a comma before for B. Change controlling to controling C. Change intentional to intentionally D. This sentence should not be changed.
c. Change intentional to intentionally
What resource can you use to help with editing(spelling words correctly)?
a dictionary
What is the duration of each day of the STAAR test?
4 hours
How do you write your thesis?
Subject because reason 1 and reason 2.
How should you start your body paragraphs
By introducing your reasons
What change, if any, should be made to this sentence: It's main functions are to control your balance and to enable your muscles to work together.
A. Change It's to Its B. Change are to is C. Change balance to balence D. No change needs to be made in this sentence.
a. Change It's to Its
The word because does not appropriately connect the two clauses in the following sentence: The young boy led his schoolmates in songs because rescuers worked to free them from the wreckage. Which word should replace because?
A. if B. while C. although D. where
b. while
What is Ms. G's sister's name
Felicia
For your body paragraphs, where do you find your reasons to explain
Your reasons come from your thesis
Name some transition words you might use.
For example, finally, however, lastly
What change, if any, should be made to this sentence: Your brain helps you breath, keeps your heart beating, and directs your stomach to digest food.
A. Change breath to breathe B. Change beating to beeting C. Change directs to directing D. This sentence should not be changed.
a. Change breath to breathe
Which sentence in this paragraph should be deleted?
How could a child be so brave? Why had a little boy risked his own life to save his fellow students? Where was the courageous boy's mother? When reporters questioned the young boy, he answered, "I was the hall monitor. It was my job to look after my classmates."
Where was the courageous boy's mother?
What did Ms. G. ask for her Christmas present
A backpack
What is a controlling idea?
Your thesis...what is paper is all about...the main idea
What can you refer to for specific examples in an expository essay?
P.E.A.C.H.
What is the correct way to write these two sentences? Dressed in a red gown. Zoey decided to show up to the wedding.
A. Dressed in a red gown and Zoey decided to show up to the wedding B. Dressed in a red gown, Zoey decided to show up to the wedding. C. Dressed in a red gown Zoey, decided to show up to the wedding. d. Make no change.
Which sentence could be added to the end of this paragraph to strengthen the introduction to this paper? During the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Summer Olympics, most people weren't watching the athletes. Instead, they were watching the small boy who was walking next to the famous Chinese basketball player. The boy's entrance brought enthusiastic cheers. That's because nine-year-old Lin Hao was more than just a kid.
A. He was a great kid. B. He was in school. C. He was a national hero. D. He was exceptionally cute.
c. He was a national hero.
What other language does Ms. G know?
Spanish
What does P.E.A.C.H. stand for?
Personal Example
Events
All books/All Movies
Cultural Example
History
How should you conclude your expository essay?
Revisit the thesis. Summarize your main idea.
What change, if any, needs to be made to this sentence? With all its intricacies, the human brain is a sensative and delicate organ.
A. Change intricacies to intracacies B. Change sensative to sensitive C. Change delicate to delacate D. No changes are needed.
b. Change sensative to sensitive
(1) Just a few months earlier, Hao had been at school on a typical day. (2) Without warning, the ground beneath him began to tremble. (3) Hao's school was at the very heart of an earthquake. (4) Windows shattered, and shelves toppled over. (5) Finally the whole building collapsed. (6) Hao somehow managed to climb out of the rubble and save himself. (7) He risked his life to pull two of his classmates to safety. What changes, if any, should be made to sentence 5?
A. change building to Building 1 B. Insert a comma after Finally C. change the period to a question mark
D. Make no change
B. Insert a comma after Finally
Who is Ms. G always with at school?
Ms. Johnson