Writing Formulas
The introduction sentence that grabs the reader's attention.
What is the Hook in HS3RT?
The simplest and easiest way to combine two sentences.
What is a comma with the conjunction and?
A phrase that cites evidence and gives credit to other people.
What is, "According to the article, the author states, the author says, and according to the text?"
A series of three items or more is also called a...
What is a list?
The thesis statement that often begins with, "In my opinion," before stating your argument and list of reasons.
What are 3 Reasons (3R) in HS3RT?
These conjunctions are used to offer choices and to compare and contrast ideas.
What are the conjunctions or and but?
Commas are used to separate what was said from who said it. Quotation marks only go around...
What was said?
This punctuation is used to separate items in a series, after introductory words/phrases, after dependent clauses, and to form compound sentences.
What is a comma?
What is Analysis/Analyze in TREAT?
What is a dependent clause?
Quotation marks, "like this," go around a conversation between two or more characters in a story.
What is dialogue?
What is wrong in the following sentence: Billy and I played Fortnite yesterday. We will get a victory royale!
We got a victory royale!
The conclusion paragraph of your five paragraph essay that summarizes your argument and reasons answering the writing prompt.
The type of clause that makes sense on its own, and it can be combined with another clause of the same type to form a compound sentence using a semicolon (;).
What is an independent clause?
Quotation marks can also be used when taking information from the source to support your argument. Quotation marks must surround the author's...
What are the author's exact words?
This is a grammatical error when two or more complete sentences are improperly joined together.
What is a run-on sentence?
This writing component includes two sentences using information from the text to support your reason.
What is Evidence in TREAT?
This phrase refers to taking two sentences and rewording them to form a single sentence.
What is paraphrasing?
How would I fix this quotation: "According to Mr. Inabnitt, All students will get pizza and ice cream for lunch today!"
According to Mr. Inabnitt, "All students will get pizza and ice cream for lunch today!"
This comma goes before the last item in a series, but you are technically allowed to leave it out (Mr. Immell highly encourages that you continue to use it).