Planning your essay
Essay Parts
Conventions
Evidence and elaboration
Testing and Writing Mix
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True or false: It is important to read all texts before planning my essay.
What is true
100
What should an introduction paragraph start with?
What is a hook
100
Fix the errors in this sentence: Physicians will tell there patients too exercise daily.
Physicians will tell their patients to exercise daily.
100
Can you make up what you write about? Why or why not?
What is no because it is based upon the actual text provided with the prompt.
100
What is a counter argument and how/when do you use it?
What is the opposite of what you are focusing on and explaining why that view is wrong (so it ultimately supports your opinion) and you use it in an argumentative essay.
200
What does T.A.P. stand for?
What is Topic, Audience, Purpose
200
What is a claim, and what four elements do you need in a claim?
What is it tells what the essay is going to be about, and titles, authors, position (or main topic), and reasons.
200
Fix the errors in this sentence: Wearing a uniform dosent stop a students creativity it encourages.
Wearing a uniform doesn't stop a student's creativity, it encourages.
200
How is evidence different from elaboration
What is evidence is pulled from the text. Elaboration is when you take the evidence and apply it in some way. It is also using creative ways to do it.
200
What kind of essay is this and what does it mean? Write an informative essay in which you explain the benefits of sports. Include the health and social benefits
What is informative, which means that I am providing information (explaining).
300
What is the purpose of planning your essay?
What is to have a clear and organized idea of what you are going to write about.
300
What elements need to be in a body paragraph?
What is a topic sentence, evidence, elaboration, and a concluding sentence
300
Fix the errors in this sentence: Principal's belive that uniforms prevent student's from being distracted
Principals believe that uniforms prevent students from being distracted.
300
What do you need to do with your text evidence to show the reader that you understood it?
What is explain and elaborate on it.
300
What kind of essay is this and what does that mean? Write an essay in which you give your opinion. Should students be required to wear uniforms to school? What are the social and educational effects of your choice?
What is argumentative and it means that I have to take a side about whether students should have to wear uniforms or not.
400
Read the following prompt and T.A.P. it out. You have read about traffic accidents caused by teens. Now write an argumentative essay answering the question: Should the minimum driving age be raised? Support your claim with details from what you have read.
What is T - should the minimum driving age be raised A - the government P - argumentative essay
400
What elements need to be in a conclusion?
What is a restated claim, and a clincher/ending comment.
400
What is wrong with this sentence? Children often report after exercising that their feeling better.
Children often report, after exercising, that they're feeling better.
400
What is citation, where should it be and what are several ways that you can do it?
Citation is telling the reader where you got your text evidence. You can use, "According to," "in the article," you can give the author, paragraph number or the title of the article. Citations need to be be right before or right after the evidence.
400
What is the best way to decide which side to take on an argumentative essay?
What is the side that has more text evidence to support the big ideas.
500
Read the following prompt and T.A.P. it out. You have read information about animals in Australia. Write an informative essay that examines how native and introduced species have adapted to life in Australia. Cite textual evidence from the sources you have read.
What is T - how native and introduced species have adapted to life in Australia A - Adults P - informative essay
500
True or false: Don't use pronouns like I, me, my, and we.
What is true
500
Where does your evidence come from and how do you find it?
What is from ALL the texts provided with the prompt.
500
What should you do after you finish typing your essay?
What is reread it checking to make sure you have all the elements and that spelling and grammar are correct.
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