Writing Your TDA

Let's Review What We've Learned About TDAs

Start with breaking down the prompt using the FAST-G method

• F - What is the format? (letter, composition, essay, story, etc.)

• A - Who is the audience? (general audience)

• S- Are there any special instructions or specific details to include?

• T- What is the topic?

• G- What is the genre? (narrative, persuasive, explanatory)

Multiple Choice

Read the prompt.

Think of an invention that has completely changed the world. In an informative essay, identify the invention and explain how it positively or negatively affected people.

What are the specific directions you have to write about?

• Talk about how inventions have changed the world.

• Talk about the history of an invention of your choice and how it has been a good AND bad thing for people.

• Name an invention and talk about how it's affected people in either a good OR bad way.

Multiple Choice

True or False

If the prompt doesn't ask you to summarize, you shouldn't include a summary in your introduction.

• True

• False

Parts of an Introduction

• Hook

• Introduction

Writing Prompt- What is this prompt asking you to do?

Nasa scientists have been exploring Mars to determine if life could have existed there and if humans could live there someday. Write an essay explaining and describing how the Perseverance Rover mission has added new advanced technologies to the exploration of Mars. Use evidence from the text to support your answer.

Multiple Choice

Nasa scientists have been exploring Mars to determine if life could have existed there and if humans could live there someday. Write an essay explaining and describing how the Perseverance Rover mission has added new advanced technologies to the exploration of Mars. Use evidence from the text to support your answer.

• background information

• call to action

Fill in the Blank

Nasa scientists have been exploring Mars to determine if life could have existed there and if humans could live there someday. Write an essay explaining and describing how the Perseverance Rover mission has added new advanced technologies to the exploration of Mars. Use evidence from the text to support your answer.

List all the VERBS in the call to action section of the prompt

The prompt is to help you write your thesis statement.

Look for what it is asking you to WRITE about. The "Be sure to" is what you need in the body.

Multiple Choice

What is the purpose of the hook?

• To connect ideas together

• To establish the main point

• A quote, question, or song lyric to get the reader's attention.

Multiple Choice

Click on the picture. What information from the prompt do you need to use to write your thesis statement?

• "Think" statement

• "Be sure to" statement

• "Write" statement

Body Paragraphs

• Topic Sentence (Only one topic from your thesis per body)

• Evidence

• Explain your evidence

• Conclude your paragraph

Multiple Choice

This overview sentence is usually written at the beginning of each body paragraph.

• Thesis statement

• Topic sentence

Multiple Choice

True or False

You should include transition words in your body paragraphs.

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

Evidence should...

• Support your topic sentence

• Be random

Multiple Choice

"According to" is a transitional phrase for _______________.

• Evidence

• Elaborating or Explaining Evidence

Multiple Choice

"This clearly shows" is a transitional phrase for _______________.

• Paragraphs

• Evidence

• Elaboration or explanation

Multiple Choice

True or False

It's ok to only include one piece of evidence

• True

• False

Conclusion

• Topic sentence. Reword the thesis statement. Closing sentence. Final words. Connects back to the introduction. Provides a sense of closure.

• This is where you summarize the main points you explained in the body of the essay.

  
  

• YOU BETTER NOT SAY "The End" or "I hope you enjoyed my essay."