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The last thing you should have in your persuasive essay's conclusion and at least one example.
What is a call to action. (prediction, suggestion/demand, rhetorical question)
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This is the lesson or main idea that the author wants you to take away from the story.
What is the theme?
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First thing you do in an explanatory quote essay?
What is restate the quote AND the author?
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The first thing you do when you receive your reading passage and questions.
What is read the multiple choice questions.
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Every writing piece should have these to help with the flow of the paper.
What are transitions?
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These are the 3 things found in an introduction to a persuasive essay.
What is hook, summary of issue, and thesis statement.
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One thing to remember when developing the plot.Hint: it has to do with the problem
What is don't jump to solution? Develop the problem with attempts at solving problem!
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This writer uses these to help explain in an explanatory essay.
What are connections?
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This is how you know your answer is correct before you circle it on the multiple choice section.
What is going back in the text to check your answer.
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Writers attempt to use these to make their writing more interesting.
What are compositional risks?
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The last sentence of your introduction that organizes the rest of your essay. (Provide the formula too!)
What is a thesis statement. Opinion + 3 reasons = Thesis
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Writers use these when trying to describe a setting.
What are sensory details?
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Explanatory essays have these as well as any other writing piece EXCEPT a letter.
What is a creative title?
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The first thing you do when answering an open-ended question.
What is restate the question?
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The difference between a simile and metaphor.
What is similes use "like or as" and metaphors don't.
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3 reasons AND a counter argument that would go with this prompt: "Should we have school uniforms?"
What is answers may vary.
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This acronym helps you remember how to develop characters.
What is S.T.E.A.L Speech, thoughts, effect of other characters, actions, looks
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What are the two different types of explanatory prompts and how are they same/different?
What is explanatory quote and explanatory topic. (answers may vary)
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A connection that could relate to this question/answer: "What's one thing marine biologists study/observe to help make new discoveries?" Answer: "Marine biologist study bacteria to help discover new things about the food chain in the ocean and how each part of the chain affects the other. It's very important that they continue to do this to make even more discoveries. This part of the text reminds me of...
What is (answers may vary). How paleontologists study fossils. These observations of fossils found help reveal certain things about history and ancient times. It allows paleontologists to make discoveries about certain creatures (dinosaurs) that existed in the past.
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The first sentence of a persuasive essay and speculative story that grabs the reader's attention (provide an example of one).
What is a hook? Answers may vary (rhetorical question, imagery, figurative language, etc.)
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The acronym used to help support each reason of your body paragraphs and what is stands for.
What is D.R.A.P.E.S? Dialogue, Rhetorical questions, analogies, personal experience, examples, statistics
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The five parts of a plot and a description of each.
What is exposition (intro to characters, setting and problem), rising action (events leading up to climax and problem developing), climax (twist in plot/character changes), falling action (problem is solved and loose ends tied up), and resolution (theme is apparent and it's the end of the story).
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The formula for the thesis statement of an explanatory quote essay.
What is quote + me + world =thesis?
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RSSE is an abbreviation of this open-ended strategy.
What is Restate and Answer, Support with Text, Support with Own Words, Extend with a Connection/Insight?
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Label each type of writing prompt that goes with the following keywords that would be found: 1. story, fiction, problem, character 2. explain, quotation, means to you, relates to you 3. convince, argue, reasons, support, opinion
What is speculative explanatory persuasive?