Prompts
Rubric
Graphic Organizer
Steps to start
100

Write an essay explaining how cell phones changed modern communication. This is an example of what kind of essay? 

Informative

100

Staying focused on the prompt directions will ensure you have a high grade in this category. 

Purpose, Focus, Organization

100

An upside down triangle signifies what paragraph of your essay

Introduction

100

When you first sit down to your new essay, you should do this

Create a graphic organizer
200

Write an essay explaining how students can express their individuality at school. What kind of essay is this. 

Informative

200

When you explain your details you gain points in this category. 

Evidence, Elaboration

200

All of your topics and claims should be stated in this paragraph

Introduction and conclusion

200

After creating your graphic organizer, you should locate and read this. 

The prompt

300

An informative essay needs to have a strong...

Controlling Idea

Or

Argument

Controlling idea. 

300

A citation will help your score in this category

Evidence. Elaboration

300

A star in the graphic organizer of an informative essay represents this statement...

Thesis Statement

300

Once you have a read the prompt, you should turn it into this. 

Question. 

400
Write a letter to your school principal explaining whether students should or should not compete in competitive sports. This is an example of what kind of essay?

Argumentative. 

400

Misspelling complex words is okay as long as you use them correctly. This will not affect your score in this category. 

Conventions

400

A topic is to an informative essay as this is to an argumentative essay. 

Claim

400
A purpose question is a useful tool to write an essay because a question has an ___________. And your entire essay is an _________ to the purpose question. 

Answer. 

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