Expository Essay
Expository Extras!
Revising & Editing
Revising & Editing
Test Taking Strategies
100
How do you hook your reader?
Possible answers: alliteration, catching statement, descriptive image, hyperbole, (famous) quote
100
What is the purpose of an expository essay?
To explain or inform a topic.
100
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
100
What resource can you use to help with editing (spelling words correctly)?
a dictionary
100
What is the duration of each day of the STAAR test?
4 hours
200
What is a thesis statement?
A statement that tells your reader what the paper is about.
200
What does elaborate mean?
To give details.
200
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
200
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
200
What can you do directly after the test? 


(Trick question)

Nothing.
300
How many paragraphs should you have in your expository? What are they? (2 part answer)
4 paragraph - 1. Introduction 2. Body paragraph one 3. Body paragraph 2 4. Conclusion
300
Name some transition words you might use.
First, second, third, finally, another, therefore, however, for example, in conclusion, etc.
300
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
300
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?
300
On day one of the writing STAAR, how should you pace yourself? 
First: Read all of prompt page, and do pre-write on one blank page. 


Second: Complete the multiple choice section of the test, bubbling in the correct answers on your scan tron. 

Third: Go back and write your essay. 

400
What are the 2nd and 3rd Body Paragraphs about? 
Personal Experience and Worldly Example 
400
What can you refer to as an example in an expository essay? (body paragraphs)
A personal experience, a famous person's experience, something that happened to your friend or parent, etc.
400
What is the correct way to write these two sentences? 

The brain stem connects your brain to your spinal cord. Which connects to most of the nerves in your body. 


a. The brain stem connects your brain to your spinal cord, this connects to most of the nerves in your body. 

b. Connecting your brain to your spinal cord and then to most of the nerves in your body. 

c. Connecting your brain to your spinal cord. It connects to most of the nerves in your body. 

d. The brain stem connects your brain to your spinal cord, which connects to most of the nerves in your body.

d. The brain stem connects your brain to your spinal cord, which connects to most of the nerves in your body.
400
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.
400
What should you do the night before your test(s)?
Relax, and get a good night's sleep.
500
Draw planning page or 4 square. 
Answers will vary. 
500
How should you conclude your expository essay?
Restate the thesis. Summarize your main idea.
500
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
500
What is the difference in revising and editing?
Answers will vary.
500
What should you do on the morning of your test(s)?
Eat a healthy breakfast, be on time to school, bring your water bottle and highlighter, and be ready to try your absolute best!
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