Personal Narrative / Expository / Literary Nonfiction

A text that explains about a topic using different types of evidence

• Personal Narrative
• Expository
• Literary Nonfiction

A text about the author that includes facts

• Personal Narrative
• Expository
• Literary Nonfiction

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

A text about the author that does not focus on facts

• Personal Narrative
• Expository
• Literary Nonfiction

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

Provides a life lesson to the reader 

• Personal Narrative
• Expository
• Literary Nonfiction

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

Has a clear controlling idea / thesis that is supported with examples

• Personal Narrative
• Expository
• Literary Nonfiction

Uses fiction-like techniques / story elements to report real-world events

• Personal Narrative
• Expository
• Literary Nonfiction

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

"Some parents are liberal when it comes to their children dating, while other parents are conservative when allowing their “babies” into the dating world."

• Personal Narrative
• Expository
• Literary Nonfiction

"It was the middle of springtime and across from my house where the incident took place. There was a lake there in which my brother and I loved to explore from time to time. The humidity and water drops where reminiscent of a fully functional sauna. The onslaught of heat and burning glow of the sun was relentless."

• Personal Narrative
• Expository
• Literary Nonfiction

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

"The 21st century is a great time to be alive. The development of fantastic technologies, solutions to or at least discussions on pressing social issues, rapidly improving medicine and education—all this is a part of global processes occurring in the modern world every single day."

• Personal Narrative
• Expository
• Literary Nonfiction

"Our many Jewish friends and acquaintances are being taken away in droves. The Gestapo is treating them very roughly and transporting them in cattle cars to Westerbork, the big camp in Drenthe to which they're sending all the Jews....If it's that bad in Holland, what must it be like in those faraway and uncivilized places where the Germans are sending them? We assume that most of them are being murdered. The English radio says they're being gassed."

• Personal Narrative
• Expository
• Literary Nonfiction

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RL.5.10