How long is a STAAR essay?
4 paragraphs
What device is being used?
The yellow flames danced among the logs inside as the snow danced down to the ground outside.
Which is correct:
I love my dog, I love my boy more.
I love my dog; but I love my boy more.
I love my dog, but I love my boy more.
I love my dog I love my boy more.
3. I love my dog, but I love my boy more.
This section of your EXPOSITORY essay is meant to grab the reader’s attention!
HOOK
This is when a character is going through a struggle or _____________ with man, himself, nature, society, or the supernatural.
CONFLICTS
What are the 3 steps on the essay prompt page?
1. Read 2. Think 3. Write
The sun smiled over the city on this hot & scorching summer day. What type or type of figurative language might this be?
Personification
Which is correct?
Were are you going?
Wear are you going?
Where are you going?
We’re are you going?
3. Where are you going?
What is the MAIN IDEA of your EXPOSITORY essay called? What you are proving!
THESIS
To PERSUADE, INFORM, or ENTERTAIN is what the author is trying to do for the reader, also called _______________.
Author's PURPOSE
What is our acronym for remembering the steps of an essay?
HaTREESC
A technique in which an author gives clues about something that will happen later in the story.
Foreshadowing
Which is correct?
Although we brought umbrellas, we left them in the car.
Although we brought umbrellas we left them in the car.
Although, we brought umbrellas; we left them in the car.
1. Although we brought umbrellas, we left them in the car.
This is the FIRST sentence of your body paragraphs that tell the REASON or IDEA you are discussing in that paragraph.
TOPIC SENTENCT
This is the LESSON or BIG IDEA the author is trying to present in their story.
Expository means...
EXPLAIN (how why something is relevent, useful, helpful)
The difference between what we THINK should happen and what ACTUALLY happens.
Irony
Which is correct?
Your going to school.
You’re going to school.
You are going to school.
2. You’re going to school.
3. You are going to school.
This is what you need to include when you introduce the EXAMPLE.
Story / Movie, who, big idea
ANNOTATE!
It is more important to earn what we have instead of everything being given to us.
These devices have to do with the EMOTION of the story. How the writer and the reader FEEL.
Tone / Mood
Which is correct?
1. After the game is over; I want to go to the store but I don't have any money.
2. After the game is over, I want to go to the store, but don't have any money.
3. After the game is over, I want to go to the store, but I don't have any money.
3. After the game is over, I want to go to the store, but I don't have any money.
This is what you need to include when you EXPLAIN your example.
How it started, conflicts / struggles, outcome
What are you able to use (and ask for) throughout the ENTIRE test?
DICTIONARY