Open-Ended Questions

Write an essay analyzing how the author’s organization of the passage helps the reader to understand the tasks. Use information from the passage to support your response.

• Narrative Essay
• Opinion Essay
• Explanatory Essay
• Text-Dependent Analysis

Read the statement about greed. “One who is greedy always wants more.” Write an essay analyzing how both passages show the statement to be true. Use evidence from both passages to support your response.

• Narrative Essay
• Opinion Essay
• Explanatory Essay
• Text-Dependent Analysis

Your class has signed up to send letters to students in a different country. Your teacher has asked your class to think about the best way to do this. Some students think the class should write handwritten letters and send them in envelopes. Other students think the best way would be to use a computer and send letters electronically. How do you think your class should send letters to students in a different country?

• Narrative Essay
• Opinion Essay
• Explanatory Essay
• Text-Dependent Analysis

Think about an activity you like to do or would like to try. This activity could be done indoors or outdoors, with a group or alone. Some people like to play games or sports. Others like to do an art or music activity. What is one activity you like to do or would like to try? Write an essay.

• Narrative Essay
• Opinion Essay
• Explanatory Essay
• Text-Dependent Analysis

People help each other in many ways. Sometimes people need help finding something or someplace. Sometimes people need help completing a task or a chore. Think about a time when you needed help. Consider who helped you and what this person did to help you. Write a story for your teacher about a time when someone helped you.

• Narrative Essay
• Opinion Essay
• Explanatory Essay
• Text-Dependent Analysis

The passage "Plastic Water Bottles Are Destroying the Environment" presents an opinion on the topic of plastic disposable water bottles.  Write an essay to evaluate how well the author supports his or her clean with reasons and evidence.

• Narrative Essay
• Opinion Essay
• Explanatory Essay
• Text Dependent Analysis

Some students at your school would like the cafeteria to get rid of unhealthy foods.  Other students argue that they should be able to make their own food decisions.  Write an essay for your teacher that states your opinion.  Give reasons to support.

• Narrative Essay
• Opinion Essay
• Explanatory Essay
• Text Dependent Analysis

Many families and other groups of people have traditions, or ways of doing things that remain the same over time.  Write an essay about a tradition you have taken part in.

• Narrative Essay
• Opinion Essay
• Explanatory Essay
• Text Dependent Analysis

Sometimes a new experience can become an interesting story. Write a story about the first day at a new school.  Make sure your story has a beginning, middle, and end.

• Narrative Essay
• Opinion Essay
• Explanatory Essay
• Text Dependent Analysis

In a TDA use the words

• I and you
• the author and you
• the author and the readers
• the readers and I