What's in the Essay
This is the main idea of the entire essay.
What is a thesis statement?
She moved to Evansville Indiana.
What is a comma?
The main noun and main verb in a sentence.
What are the Subject & Predicate?
In 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated.
What is a Simple Sentence?
Descriptive words used to describe nouns
What are Adjectives?
The attention-grabbing sentence
What is a hook?
Before school starts. True or False - The sentence is complete.
What is False?
Specific person, place, thing or idea is considered this
What is a Proper Noun?
Tim went to the gym after eating lunch at the Cheesecake Factory.
What is a Complex Sentence?
It's a subject, a verb, and a complete thought.
What is a Complete, Simple Sentence or Independent Clause?
4 paragraphs consist of an introduction, body#1, body#2, and a conclusion. It will describe, inform, or explain a topic for an intended audience.
What is an expository essay?
Sitting closer to the board helped for a while, but I knew it wasn't a permanant solution.
What is Spelling?
These types tell when the action occurs - past, present, future
What are Verb Tenses?
They spoke to him in Spanish, yet he responded in English.
What is Compound Sentence?
One independent clause and one dependent clause joined together. If the dependent clause comes first, a comma is necessary. If the dependent clause comes second, no comma is needed.
What is a complex sentence?
These words are added to the beginning of a new paragraph to move smoothly from one topic to the next.
What are transition words?
But when I realized I was having trouble seeing the board, my heart sinked. This is the error in the sentence.
What is Wrong Verb Tense?
Extra information is provided, but not necessary.
What is Extraneous?
After the teacher chose groups, John and Sara were selected as partners for a project, yet Sara did most of the work.
What is a Compound-Complex Sentence?
The ocean
- sea life in the ocean
- sharks in the ocean
- The life cycle of a great white shark
What is Narrowing the Topic?
True or False - An expository essay should be written from 3rd person point of view, should give factual information, and should NOT include words like "I" or "Me"
What is True?
isn't there a picnic on sunday? john said, "There will be many people there."
my sister, michelle, was born september 5, 1995.
jake lives next door to mrs. smith.
What is Capitalization?
Pronouns that are open to more than one meaning.
What is Ambiguous?
While waiting for the paint to dry, Angela went to Home Depot, and Martin organized the kitchen appliances.
What is a Compound-Complex Sentence?
Brainstorm
Rough Draft
Revise
Edit
Final Draft
What is the Writing Process?