Essay Structure Refresher

An introduction must contain the following... (there are multiple correct answers)

• A thesis statement

• An interesting hook

• A recipe for baklava

• Your entire life story

• Background information / context

To create good supporting details for your body paragraphs, you should try to answer these questions in your writing...

• Who?

• Why?

• What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

• So what?

• Like what?

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

Your conclusion must contain...

• A picture of you in sunglasses pointing at the camera

• An extension, i.e. "so what?"

• The entire script of Bee Movie

• Your thesis, exactly the way you wrote it in your introduction

• Your thesis, written in a different way from how you wrote it in the introduction

What should you do BEFORE you write your essay?

• Take a nap

• Learn to play the digeridoo

• Write an outline of your essay

• Eat a ham sandwich

By the way, have you ever created an outline for any of your essays for this class? Be honest! :)

• Yes, always

• Never

• Once or twice

• I have tried, but I've given up

What must you do AFTER you write your essay?

• Give your ham sandwich to the evil dog

• Proofread it

• Go to Disneyland

• Do an interpretive dance number

What should your essay NEVER have?

• The word "I"

• The word "peanut"

• The word "hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia"

• The word "you"