Essay Structure
This is what we call the first paragraph of an essay.
What is an Introduction.
This is the number of paragraphs you should included in an informative essay.
What is 5?
These are the two types of narrative essays.
What is a short story and personal?
This is how many paragraphs you should include in your argumentative essay.
What is 6.
Write a new story about your favorite family vacation. Include information about where you went and why it was your favorite family vacation.
What is a personal narrative?
This is the sentence that tells the reader the purpose or point of our essay. It appears in the introduction.
What is the claim/thesis statement?
The word that appears in the writing prompt that tells you it is an informative essay.
Name three story elements included in a narrative essay.
Character, setting, plot, details, beginning/middle/end.
You must pick one of these but not both when writing an argumentive essay.
What is sides?
Write an essay arguing whether students should be given textbooks in printed or digital format. Your essay must be based upon ideas, concepts, and information from the “Textbooks or Tablets” passage set.
What is an argumentative/persuasive essay?
This is the paragraph where you restate the claim, summarize your main points and make a final thought.
What is the conclusion?
You get information and evidence from this for your informative essay.
What is the reading passage or text?
A personal narrative does NOT include this in the writing prompt.
What is a picture?
The reading passage has more information on one side of the argument comapared to the other, so you will want to do this.
What is pick the side with the most information?
Goldilocks and Three Bears is a well know fairy tale. Rewrite a new ending to the story that included the orginals characters and one new character.
What is a narrative short story?
This is the the part of the essay where you provide evidence that connects to your claim.
What is two?
Personal narratives and short stories do not include this with the writing prompt.
What is a reading passage?
Your argument should be based soley on this information.
What is information from the passage/text?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming more common in everyday life-from Chat GPT to self driving cars. Explain what artificial intelligence is and how it is used in everyday life. Use the reading passages "AI in the World" to support your answer.
What is an informative essay?
The is the very first sentence of an argumentative or informative essay. It grabs the readers attendtion.
You can not include this type of information in an informative essay unless it appears in the passage.
What is outside information.
This is what you should do if you can not relate to a personal narrative writing prompt.
What is make it up.
Be careful NOT to personally think that you have to agree with this to write your argumentative essay.
What is personally agree with the side I choose to argue?
Using the information from the passage "Cell Phones in the Classroom" answer the question Should students be allowed to use cell phones in the classroom? Cite text evidence from the passage to back up your claim.
What is an argumentative essay?