Parts of an Essay 1
What is the first paragraph in an essay?
Introduction
What does each paragraph start with?
An topic sentence
What is the purpose of quotes?
To provide textual evidence to support your thesis statement
What holds about 70 percent of the world's freshwater?
Glaciers and ice sheets
What has to be broken before you can use it?
An egg
What is the last paragraph in an essay called?
Conclusion
What does each body paragraph end with?
Transitional sentence
What needs to be at the end of each quote? (besides the quotation marks)
citation
The best place in the world to see rainbows
Hawaii
What goes up but never comes down?
Your age
What are the middle paragraphs in an essay called?
Body paragraphs
What 3 elements are required to be in each body paragraph?
context, quote, and analysis
Where is the thesis statement in the introduction paragraph?
The entire world's population could fit inside this major U.S. city
Los Angeles
What has hands, but can’t clap?
A clock
How many sentences typically does an introduction paragraph have?
4
How many sentences should be in an analysis?
3-4
What appears before a quote?
context
More people visit this country than any other country
France
What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Silence
What does an introduction paragraph have that a conclusion paragraph also has?
thesis statement
What format are English essays always in?
MLA
What needs to be inserted before the quote within the same sentence?
integration
This country is the world's most earthquake-prone country
Japan
What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Light