Introductions & Conclusions
The very first sentence of your essay is called this. It's intended to grab your readers attention.
A hook.
The two ways to put your evidence in your essay are...
Direct quote and paraphrase (put it in your own words)
Should your elaboration be from the passages or your own words?
Your own words!
Planning your essay should take you how long.
10-15 minutes
The FSA scores my essay out of this many points.
10
Your conclusion should be at least this many sentences.
At least 3 sentences.
True/False. I don't need to cite what source I got my evidence from if I paraphrased.
False! You ALWAYS cite where you got your evidence!
True/False. In my elaboration, I can restate what my evidence says.
False! You want your elaboration to be your own thoughts/ideas/feelings/understanding of the evidence.
T/F: In an opinion essay, the reasons that you talk about in your body paragraphs should be the same as the ones you list in your introduction paragraph?
True, your body paragraphs should always connect to the information from your introduction paragraph.
When you revise your essay before submitting, what kind of mistakes should you look for?
Spelling, Punctuation, Indentation, Grammar
The three necessary parts of an introduction are called these.
A hook, your main idea/opinion and key ideas/reasons.
T/F: I should only add evidence in my introduction and conclusion.
FALSE, you should only add evidence in your Body Paragraphs
T/F: Your elaboration can be an explanation or a personal connection.
True, as long as it is relevant to the main idea of that paragraph and your evidence.
Your body paragraphs should be at least this many sentences long.
4 sentences.
True/False. I should avoid using personal pronouns like "I" and "my" in an informative essay.
True! You want your essay to read as professional and factual as possible.
True/False: You can't include new ideas and evidence in your conclusion.
True!
Name a transition/sentence starter for quoting evidence.
In Source 1 it states / According to the text,
If I have 2 body paragraphs, what is the minimum amount of elaborations I should have in my essay?
2, because you should have 1 elaboration per piece of evidence!
An example of a second body paragraph topic sentence transition is this.
In addition,
Secondly,
Also important,
The three grading categories on the FSA rubric are these.
Purpose, Focus, and Organization
Evidence and Elaboration
Conventions of Standard English
Make up your own hook for an essay about why community service should be required for high school graduation.
Did you know that there are tons of benefits to doing community service?
According to the text....
The text states....
The author of the text says...
Source ____ says.....
If I don't include elaboration in my essay, the highest score under Evidence and Elaboration on the FSA rubric I can get is this.
No elaboration gets you a 1.
"Ineffective" elaboration gets you a 2.
The purpose of a topic sentence (for any paragraph) is to do this.
Introduce what that paragraph will be mainly about.
If I don't cite my sources, the highest score I can get under Evidence and Elaboration on the FSA rubric is this.
2