Before writing
This is the very first thing you should read once you get your writing
What is the prompt
In your essay, state your opinion on whether or not you think students should have cell phones
What is opinion.
What you do before reading and annotating the text to guide your reading.
What is flip the prompt into a question?
These should be at the beginning of every paragraph.
What is an indent and/or line skip
This should be in your introduction
What is a hook and controlling idea/main idea of whole essay.
Write an essay giving your opinion about whether or not you think kids should have to play an after school sport.
What is opinion
Each paragraph should include these 5 things...
What is main idea, evidence, elaboration, transitions, cite sources
You should re-read your writing like this after you finish
What is as a reader, not the writer.
This should be in your mini main idea body paragraphs.
What is transition, mini main idea (reason), evidence, elaboration and at least one source citation?
What we should do when reading a passage.
What is to annotate?
Write an informative essay in which you explain the different types of minerals.
What is informative.
The number of sources per paragraph...
What is at least two.
Every letter at the beginning of a sentence should be this.
What is capital.
This should be in your conclusion.
What is restate your main idea of whole (controlling idea), summarize your main points and add a take away?
The first thing you should do after reading the prompt all the way through one time.
What is the BUCS strategy.
Write an informative essay describing the different types of paintings done by Pablo Picasso that you read about. How will the topic sentence/controlling begin?
What is informative
What you should do after you read the text set with your question in mind and annotate the text...
What is look for patterns across text and come up with main idea of whole and supporting reasons.
Paragraphs should have (at least) this number of sentences.
What is five
You must make sure all of evidence is...
What is paraphrased, not copied from text unless using as a quotation.
What is start your main idea by writing the topic on your prompt page.
Write an essay giving your opinion about what you thinking about cities having public transportation in every neighborhood. State the topic sentence (controlling idea).
What is opinion. Cities should/should not have public transportation in every neighborhood...
The time you should be finishing your plan and beginning to draft your essay.
What is about an hour after time starts.
You have this number of minutes to take the writing FSA.
What is 120 minutes/2 hours
This should be done after you are finished writing.
What is reread,revise and edit?