Informative Essay #1

What is the topic of informative essay #1?

• The Everglades is located in Florida.

• The presence of the Burmese python is changing the Everglades.

• The Everglades is filled with many animals

• People are competing in a challenge for cash in the Florida Everglades.

What should be included in the introductory paragraph?

• Hook

• 3 topic sentences

• topic/thesis

• all of the above

Which set of pronouns are only allowed when writing informative essay #1?

• somebody, anybody, people, others, those, anybody,

• you, your, your, yours

• I, me, mines, mine, my

• We, us, our,

When citing evidence from any of the sources from pages 44 - 47 in the Performance Assessment book, which punctuation marks should be around the titles?

• italics

• underline

• quotation marks

• parentheses

How many body paragraphs are required for informative essay #1?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Each new paragraph is following what format to identify a new idea in the letter?

• indenting/indentation

• capitalizing/capitalization

• punctuating/punctuation

Each body paragraph should begin with what?

• Text evidence

• topic sentences w/ transition words

• quotes

• explanations