Narrative
Informative Essay
Argumentative Essay
HIT/TIDE/RIP
Sentence Types
100

The first part of a narrative on the story plot map.

What is exposition?

100

This is the paragraph structure for an informative essay.

What is HIT, TIDE, TIDE, TIDE, RIP?

100

This is the paragraph structure for an argumentative essay.

What is HIT, TIDE, TIDE, Counterclaim, RIP?

100

This is what you should NOT do in a hook.

What is ask a Yes or No question?

100

This is a sentence with one independent clause.

What is a simple sentence?

200

When characters speak in a story.

What is dialogue?

200

These belong in the thesis statement in your informative essay.

What are your three points?

200

These belong in the thesis statement of an argumentative essay.

What are your two claims?

200

This is the most important sentence in your essay to set up so your essay will be written correctly.

What is the topic sentence/thesis statement?

200

This is a sentence with one independent clause and one dependent clause.

What is a complex sentence?

300

The high point of the story

What is the climax?

300

Name a transition type you find in a TIDE paragraph.

What is a beginning transition, a detailed analysis transition, or an ending transition?

300

Name the letter of the RIP paragraph that should begin with an ending transition.

What is the R?

300

These are the three things that belong in the I in HIT.

What are the titles, authors, and the topic?

300

This is a sentence with two independent clauses, a comma, and a coordinating conjunction.

What is a compound sentence?

400

Words that show change in time or location in a story

What are narrative transitions?

400

These are words in the prompt that signal that you will write and informative essay.

What are inform, explain, describe?

400

These are words in the prompt that signal that you will write an argumentative essay.

What are argue, decide, choose, support your choice?

400

Name a Detailed Analysis transition.

What is to put it differently, to restate, in other words, etc?

400

The word moreover in this sentence is a......

I had already done my homework; moreover, I had studied for my upcoming test.

What is a conjunctive adverb?

500

Name the five parts of the story plot map.

What are exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?

500

On the informative rubric, transitions and good vocabulary are scored under this category.

What is Language?

500

These are the letters that help you remember how to write a Counterclaim.

What are O/T/H/T?

500

Name a way you could show sentence variety in an essay.

What is use compound and complex sentences, use a semi-colon?

500

Name two ways to make a compound sentence other than using a comma and a coordinating conjunction.

What are using a semi-colon, or using a semi-colon and a conjunctive adverb?