Expository Essay
How do you hook your reader?
What is...alliteration, catching statement, descriptive image, hyperbole, (famous) quote, question, onomatopoeia, how & why cafe, anecdote, action, or fact
What is the purpose of an expository essay?
What is 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.
What is c. Change intentional to intentionally
What is the definition of a semicolon, colon, and hyphen?
What is:
semicolon - a punctuation mark (;) indicating a pause, typically between two main clauses
colon - a punctuation mark (:) used to precede a list of items, a quotation, or an expansion or explanation
hyphen - used to join words to indicate that they have a combined meaning or that they are linked in the grammar of a sentence
What is the duration of each day of the STAAR test?
What is 4 hours.
What is a thesis statement?
What is...a sentence that explains to the reader what you will be writing about, or controlling idea.
How should you start each topic sentence?
What is with a transition word.
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.
What is a. Change It's to Its
What change, if any, needs to be made in the sentence below?
You must bring basic supplies to class: a pen or pencil, paper, a calculator, and a textbook.
A. supplies to class, a pen or pencil, paper, a calculator, and a textbook.
B. supplies to: class a pen or pencil, paper, a calculator, and a textbook.
C. supplies to class: a pen: or pencil, paper, a calculator, and a textbook.
D. Make no change.
What is D. Make No Change.
Name a few ways you can take brain breaks during the STAAR test.
What is..roll around your neck, close your eyes for one minute, roll your shoulders around, ask to go to the restroom, ask to go get water, or chew gum/peppermint.
Which type of How and Why cafe is the example below?
"This happened to me before in seventh grade..."
What is an anecdote.
Name some transition words you might use.
What is finally, another, therefore, however, in conclusion (answers may vary.)
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.
What is a. Change breath to breathe
What change if any needs to be made in this sentence?
You certainly have a go get it nature.
A. You certainly have a go get-it nature.
B. You certainly have a go get it nature.
C. You certainly have a go-get-it nature.
D. Make no changes.
What is C. You certainly have a go-get-it nature.
When answering a revising and editing question what three sentences do you need to look?
What is look at the sentence being talked about in the question, the sentence before that one, and the sentence after.
What is a controlling idea?
What is..your thesis...what the paper is all about.
What can you refer to as an example in an expository essay?
What is a personal experience, a famous person's experience, something that happened to your friend or parent (answers may vary).
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.
What is d. The brain stem connects your brain to your spinal cord, which connects to most of the nerves in your body.
What change, if any, should be made in the following sentence?
I talked to Jenny this morning; who said that it was too cold to go swimming.
A. Change the ; to ,
B. Move the ; to after said
C. Delete the ;
D. Make no changes.
What is A. Change the ; to ,
What should you do the night before your test(s)?
What is pack a water bottle, relax, and get a good night's sleep.
What are the three components of an effective introduction?
What is...lead/hook, transition sentence, and thesis statement/controlling idea.
How should you conclude your expository essay?
What is to restate the thesis, summarize your main idea, and to leave your reader with something to think about.
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.
What is b. Change sensative to sensitive
What change, if any, needs to be made in the sentence below?
This organization has chapters in Wilmington, Delaware, Hanover, New Hampshire, and New York, New York.
A. Wilmington; Delaware, Hanover; New Hampshire, and New York; New York.
B. Wilmington, Delaware; Hanover, New Hampshire; and New York, New York.
C. Wilmington Delaware, Hanover New Hampshire, and New York New York.
D. Make no changes.
What is B. Wilmington, Delaware; Hanover, New Hampshire; and New York, New York.
What should you do on the morning of your test(s)?
What is eat a healthy breakfast, be on time to school, bring your water bottle and highlighter, and be ready to show your awesome-ness!