Audience
The principal of your school does not agree with having students work in groups to do all their school work. Think about the reasons why students should work in groups to do all their school work. Now write to convince your principal whether students should work in groups to do all their school work.
Principal
What comes after Background/Bridge in TBEAR?
Evidence
The essay that goes with this prompt:
Is it better to live in a city or a rural area? Take a position on which lifestyle is better for individuals and society.
should be about where to live and why it’s _____ for individuals and society.
Better
Write an essay arguing whether or not phones should be allowed in schools.
Argument
The first sentence of a body paragraph
Topic sentence
Write a paper for your history class explaining how children’s responsibilities have changed over time and the effects those changes have had on different generations of children.
History class
What is a direct quote?
When you take a quote word for word from the text
The essay that goes with this prompt:
Should plastic bags be banned? Defend your position on whether stores should be allowed to use plastic bags.
should be about if _____ should be able to use plastic bags.
Stores
Is it better to live in a city or a rural area? Take a position on which lifestyle is better for individuals and society.
Argument
The minimum number of sentences of analysis after a quote
2
Research shows that people communicate messages about who they are by the clothing they wear. Read the provided articles and then write an argument for people at your school about what extent clothing sends messages to other people.
People at your school
What is paraphrasing?
Putting a part of a text in your own words
The essay that goes with this prompt:
Write a paper for your history class explaining how children’s responsibilities have changed over time and the effects those changes have had on different generations of children.
should be about children’s responsibilities changing and ______
Effects of those changes
Write an explanation for your social studies class about the close connection between the Mayans study of astronomy and Mayan architecture. Your explanation must be based on evidence from the provided articles.
Informational
This punctuation goes around direct quotes
Quotation Marks
Many adolescents have difficulty making the move to middle school. In response to this problem, the board of education has decided to require that all first year middle school students attend an orientation workshop just before school begins. You have been selected to serve on the committee which will plan the orientation activities.
Write a report to be presented to the workshop planning committee in which you make recommendations for the activities and information that should be part of the program to prepare students for high school. Support your recommendations.
Workshop planning committee
What is summarizing?
An overview of the text's main points in your own words.
The essay that goes with this prompt:
Margot moved from Earth to Venus. How can major changes in people's lives affect their views and the way they think about the world?
should be about how major changes affect people’s views and thoughts and _____.
The story Margo is from and/or her circumstances
Should plastic bags be banned? Defend your position on whether stores should be allowed to use plastic bags.
Argument
What is a good sentence starter for analysis?
This shows...
This evidence supports...
The author includes this to show...
Etc.
If you could have given advice to a well-known historical figure, who would that figure be, and
what advice would you give?
Write an essay identifying the historical figure and developing the specific advice.
Teacher
Create the correct citation
"They're really my friends and they like me"
From Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, found on page 40
(Keyes 40)
The two main pieces of information that must be included in the essay with this prompt:
If you could have given advice to a well-known historical figure, who would that figure be, and
what advice would you give?
Write an essay identifying the historical figure and developing the specific advice.
are _____ & _____.
Which historical figure
What advice to give them
Margot moved from Earth to Venus. How can major changes in people's lives affect their views and the way they think about the world?
Informational
The purpose of background/bridge
Help readers understand more about your topic sentence