Parts of the Whole
the purpose of an Informative Essay
What is to inform?
Deconstruct the following prompt: Write a multi-paragraph essay about the growth and improvement of the airline industry since it first began. Your essay must be based on the ideas, concepts, and information contained in the passage set.
What is: How has the airline industry grown and improved since it first began?
It's Double Jeopardy!!!
What is prefaced by a semicolon (;) and followed by a comma (,)?
The us needs to reconsider its foreign policy.
What is grammar?
The length of the FSA writing.
What is 120 minutes?
The purpose of an argumentative essay.
What is to argue?
Deconstruct this prompt: Write an informational essay on how language and communication have changed over time. Your essay must be based on ideas, concepts, and information from the passage set.
What is: How have language and communication changed over time?
Three examples of words that need to be capitalized.
What are:
1st word in a sentence, proper nouns, I, quotes, dates, months. holidays, languages, titles, and events
Article 4 states "We tried to make it but were pushed back by heavy fire."
What is punctuation?
This paragraph includes background information and a thesis statement.
What is the introduction?
words that signal an essay is organized
What are transition words?
Deconstruct the following prompt: Write an essay on the impact the invention of the television had on society. Use information/evidence from the text set to support your essay.
What is: What impact has the invention of the television had on society?
This sentence which is the question for 300 needs this punctuation since it uses an appositive.
What are commas?
This sentence, which is the question for 300, needs this punctuation since it uses an appositive.
I think the U.S. needs to let immigrants, like my family was, into the country.
What is objective?
It's Double Jeopardy!!!
What is Conventions of Standard English?
In an argumentative essay, this piece MUST be included in order to score a 3.
What is a counterclaim?
Deconstruct this prompt: Write an explanatory essay about development of the dust bowl and the effect on the people who lived there. Your essay must be based on ideas and information that can be found in the passage set.
What is: How did the dust bowl develop, and what were the effects on the people who lived there?
These are the three reasons to use a semicolon.
What are:
connecting 2 clauses, listing with internal punctuation, and connecting 2 clauses using a conjunctive adverb.
The graduation rate was at an all time record high in 2018 and that was good because more kids got to graduate with a diploma that could help them out in the future with jobs and college.
What is punctuation?
This is not graded but should still be completed on your scratch piece of paper.
What is my planning sheet?
Each of the body paragraphs needs to connects to this one piece of the essay.
What is the thesis statement?
Deconstruct the following prompt: Write a blog in which you take a position on whether or not the sale of sugary drinks should be limited to smaller portions. Your blog must be based on the ideas, concepts and information contained in the passage set.
What is: Should the sale of sugary drinks be limited to smaller portions?
This is maintaining a chosen grammatical form within a sentence.
What is parallel structure?
As you may know, the average graduation rate is around 97% but at our high school this is much higher.
What is objective?
These are the three sections of the FSA grading rubric.
What are:
Evidence and elaboration
Purpose, focus, organization
Conventions of Standard English