Prompt and Essay
This kind of essay is used to teach the reader about a topic or explain a topic to a reader.
What is an "Informative Essay"? or What is an "Informational Writing"?
Asking a question, making a creative statement and Onamonapia are all good examples of this.
What is "Attention Grabber" or "Hook"?
The numbers 2, and 3 refer to the number of these kinds of paragraphs in a essay.
What is "body paragraphs"?
The three things a good conclusion paragraph should have.
What are "Restated Thesis", "Lingering Thought" and "Personal Opinion"?
FSA Writing Essay are scored with three categories
1. Purpose, Focus, Organization
2. Evidence and Elaboration
3. Grammar and Spelling
This is the TOTAL points possible to a perfect score.
What is "10 points"?
"Write About", "Explain" and " Tell About" are all key words that you would find in this kind of prompt.
What is "Informative Writing Prompt"?
A sentence that describes the main topic/main focus of the entire essay and outlines the reasons that will be more fully explained in the body paragraphs.
What is a "Thesis"?
The topic sentence for the Paragraph below is..
"But now the Naylors didn't need to produce their own nitrogen-they went out and bought it. The nitrogen fo the fields would no longer be made with the sun's energy but with fossil fuels. Farming was not longer an ecological loop- it was more like a factory. The farmer bought raw materials (seed and fertilizer) and turned it into a product- corn."
What is
"But now the Naylors didn't need to produce their own nitrogen- they went out and bought it. "
The restated thesis statement in this conclusion paragraph is ...
"Finally, to sum up, the factory farm produces more food much faster than the old solar-cased farm, however the system only works as long as the fossil fuel energy is cheap. What will happen to our crops if fossil fuels are no longer cheap? Imagine what would happen if we no longer had fossil fuels to make fertilizers to grow crops. It is a smart idea to go back to traditional farming so American don't have to rely on fertilizers made from fossil fuels to grow food. "
What is "Finally, to sum up, the factory farm produces more food much faster than the old solar-based farm, however the system only works as long as fossil fuel energy is cheap."?
A student taking FSA Writing Essay has 1120 minutes to finish. He reads the texts and sources. He plans. He writes his essay. He looks at the clock, there is still 40 minutes left.
This is the step that he needs to do now, before the time is up for the test.
What is "revise and edit" the essay?
Newspaper articles, online articles, and essays are all examples of this type of writing.
What is "Informational Writing"?
In an informative essay a thesis statement can never be this kind of statement.
What is "an Opinion"?
"In this paragraph, I am going ot tell you about factory Farms and how they use fertilizers to plant just one kind of crop, corn, every year, for many years in a row."
Is an example of this kind of topic sentence.
What is "a poor topic sentence"?
This sentence is the lingering thought in this conclusion paragraph.
"Finally, to sum up, the factory farm produces more food much faster than the old solar-cased farm, however the system only works as long as the fossil fuel energy is cheap. What will happen to our crops if fossil fuels are no longer cheap? Imagine what would happen if we no longer had fossil fuels to make fertilizers to grow crops. It is a smart idea to go back to traditional farming so American don't have to rely on fertilizers made from fossil fuels to grow food. "
What is " What will happen to our crops if fossil fuels are no longer cheap? Imagine what would happen if we no longer had fossil fuels to make fertilizers to grow crops?"
Keisha knows she is a good writer. She feels confident that she knows how to slay the essay! She reads the text/sources and immediately starts writing her essay.
This is the step that Keisha skipped.
What is "Plan your essay"?
This shape with four interconnected parts can help writers plan their essays. What is the shape and what are the names of the parts?
What is a "rectangle" with four "puzzle piece parts". The parts are called "Intro", "Body" "Body" and "Conclusion".
This helps writers to organize the background information in the introduction paragraph.
What is "The Funnel"?
However, Next, Lastly, Also, Although, On the other hand, In comparison, Additionally are all examples of this.
What are "Transition Words"?
Is this statement true or false?
"A good conclusion paragraph introducing new information."
What is "false"?
BONUS!
For 400 Jeopardy Points and 200 House Points!
When revising your essay, it is helpful to read your essay aloud to see if your writing makes sense and hear if their are any errors that need to be corrected. BUT, you are not aloud to make any sounds during the FSA Writing Essay test.
This is one strategy that you can use during FSA Writing to make sure your essay makes sense.
What is "read it silently to yourself inside your head"?
120 minutes is typically how much time students have to do these four things when taking an FSA Writing Test
What is "Read the passages" "Plan the essay" "Write the Essay" and "Edit and Revise the Essay" ?
This part of the essay has an Attention grabber, Background Info and a Thesis Statement.
What is " Introductory Paragraph"?
This body paragraph has which two parts?
" According to Source 2, "the industrial farm is powered with fossil fuels. There's natural gas in the fertilizer and the fossil fuel energy it takes to make the pesticides, the diesel used by tractors and the fuel need to harvest, dry and transport the corn." This means that farmers now rely on fossil fuels to grow crops, and without fossil fuels, many parts of the industrial farm would not work, the crops wouldn't grow and the crops could not be harvested.
What is "Citing sources from the text" and "Elaborating or Explaining the citation"?
BONUS!
For 500 Jeopardy points AND 200 House Points!
True or False: "I" "me" "myself" "us" and "my" should be included in an informative essay.
What is "false"?
Dondarious copies his essay directly from the text. He does not explain or elaborate. His entire essay is word for word from the passage and he does not cite his sources. Dondarious receives a "0" for his essay.
This is the official name of what Dondarious did to get the grade of "0".
What is "plagiarism"?