Expanding Our Writing Repertoire with… Expository Essays

As we move into a new month (now almost the middle, amazingly), we will be looking at a new genre of writing… expository essays. This type of essay is designed to explain. Beginning with a thesis or belief statement, students will seek to identify reasons for this belief and will work to support these reasons with elaboration in the form of anecdotes (mini-story), examples, and / or descriptions.

We watched the following video in class to get a sense of the structure of an essay and the importance of the planning process.

Today, we started out by reading a prompt and determining what it was asking. We will be writing about an important or influential person in our lives and why they are important. Once we had someone in mind, we crafted a thesis statement and recorded two reasons with supporting examples on our graphic organizer. We will use this information tomorrow to draft our hook and body paragraphs.

The creators of Flocabulary use rap to review the elements of an essay and the purpose of each.

Flocabulary: Five Paragraph Essay

Optional Multiple Source: NoRedInk: Essay Essentials (Free Sign Up)

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