To begin the new year, 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.
The creators of Flocabulary use rap to review the elements of an essay and the purpose of each.
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