Essay Review Grade 9 & 10

The main idea of a paragraph is the

• detail sentences

• topic sentence

• conclusion paragraph

• thesis statement

The main idea of the entire essay is the

• body paragraphs

• topic sentence

• thesis statement

• hook

Step 1 of a thesis statement is to

• provide reasons

• topic sentence

• introduction

• create of finding the question

Step 2 of a thesis statement is to

• provide reasons that answer the question

• provide details to a paragraph

• create or find the question

• creat a topic sentence

step 3 of a thesis statement is to

• write an introduction paragraph

• create body paragraphs

• write an introduction sentence

• combine steps 1 and 2

The first paragraph in an essay is the

• topic sentence

• body paragraph

• introduction

• conclusion

The introduction steps are _____, _____, and _____.

• topic sentence, details, ending sentence

• thesis statement, details, topic sentence

• a general statement, background information, thesis statement

• background information, topic sentence, thesis statement

the middle paragraph/s of an essay are called

• the body paragraphs

• the conclusion

• thesis statement

• and ending sentence

the last paragraph of an essay is a

• conclusion

• ending sentence

• body paragraph

• introduction

a _____ helps you turn the reasons in your thesis statement into body paragraphs

• treemap

• topic sentence

• circle map

• conclusion