Expository Essay Crunch Mastery Peak

Expository writing is _____________?

• explaining a topic

• arguing a side

Expository/Informative writing uses what type of passages?

• Informational/ Nonfiction

• Fiction

• Poems

• Dramas/Plays

A SYNONYM for EXPOSITORY WRITING is ...

• Argumentative Writing

• Informative Writing

TRUE/FALSE: A writer should use DIFFERENT SENTENCE STARTERS/TRANSITION WORDS throughout their paper to vary the wording.

• True

• False

What should be in your introduction?

• Topic Sentence, transition, and clarifying statement 

• Examples and lots and lots of text evidence

• Hook, Restate the Prompt, Three Topics

You should cite evidence from ..

• Only from NASA, not SpaceX

• The sources provided

• Only 1 source

• Whatever you find on Google

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.7.1

Before you submit your essay, you need to...

• Do not do anything

• Pray

• Revise/edit your essay

• Do a little dance

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.3

CCSS.RI.8.5

This is from an expository essay about Rosa Parks' Leadership.

Which of these is the BEST example of "own thoughts and ideas"/elaboration,

for the quote: Page 16, paragraph 9 states, “The boycott was to no longer ride the city bus for as long as it took to change the segregation law.”

• Rosa was at the forefront of the boycott. It must have been an exciting and terrifying time for her since she was starting to emerge as a leader.

• This quote is saying that people wanted to sit on the back of the bus.

• According to Source 3, she had many books.

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is a hook?

• The sentence that grabs the reader's attention.

• The sentence that explains my specific example.

• The sentence that ends my essay.

• The sentence that has the most vocabulary words.

What type of words are these: Moreover, Additionally, All in all, Furthermore, For instance, In other words?

Hint: These help your paragraphs and ideas flow.

• Pronouns

• Synonyns

• Transitions

• Details

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2