The Essay
There should be this many thesis points for an essay.
What is three?
A story should have a minimum of this many plot paragraphs.
What is five?
Scratch paper is your
What is friend?
Students have or have not wrote multiple stories and essays this year...
What is have
For each of the three ELA tests next week, students should click to find this before beginning the reading.
What is find the prompt?
The minimum amount of citations each body paragraph is required to have is...
What is one? Two for challenge seekers!
When a new character talks in a story, the writer should...
What is make a new paragraph?
Writing this on your scratch paper will be helpful if it is an essay prompt for finding evidence to cite.
What are page numbers?
When you take these three tests, whose time is it to shine?
What is your or our time?
The reading and multiple choice should be taken at this pace to make sure understanding of the text is as clear as possible.
What is a slow/not-rushed/focused pace?
An opening paragraph in an essay should follow these steps.
What is have a bridge that states text titles and the prompt, and a thesis that lists three points.
The three ideas the beginning of a story should describe in great detail are...
What are characters, setting, actions or challenges?
Each letter in TAKP stands for..
What is type, audience, keywords, and purpose?
The test makers time is done. It is over . This is your time to ___
What is shine?
Your essay is finished. Time at the end remains. And you only cited one piece of evidence in each body paragraph. You should..
Go back, and cite another.
Body paragraphs for an essay should follow this structure.
What is state thesis, cite, explain?
Plot paragraphs can describe ideas like these. (Say at least 4.)
What are details, setting, characters, actions, challenges, emotions.
Scratch paper for a story has this instead of thesis points.
What is a plot diagram?
Believe in your creativity if you are asked to write a story, and take the reader to this place.
What is the Emerald City?
For vocab word questions, what should you do if the word is unfamiliar?
What is use context clues?
For the conclusion of an essay, you should follow these steps.
What is re-state thesis, and end with message.
All four rules for writing dialogue include...
What is new paragraph, said is dead, punctuation before period, details?
For an essay prompt, your thesis points should...
What is be brief, a word of a few words, and answer the prompt that can be cited with evidence.
The sixth grade students
What is...
Are the greatest group of students in the world?
Have made me honored and proud to be their teacher this year?
Will be missed next year?
Are ready for this, and need to be confident?
Have caused Mr. B to brag to his sister, who is also a teacher, about how great they are this year?
Will never forget the vocab word perched?
Need to go into this with clear eyes that are focused, and a full heart that is ready to give its all. I know that they will.
Explanations for a compare and contrast essay should not do this.
What is just re state the evidence.