Essay Hacks

What is the formula for a thesis?

• FADDQQ

• hook + bridge

• what the prompt tells you to write about + point 1 + point 2 + point 3

• what the prompt tells you to write about

What is another word for explanatory essay?

• expository

• persuasive

• argumentative

• narrative

What are 2 ways to include evidence?

• copy from the text and use quotation marks or put the evidence in your own words

• copy the text and use quotation marks or use FADDQQ

• copy the text using an ellipsis (...) or copy the entire sentence

• use the phrase "this means" or use the phrase "this shows"

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RI.7.8

What does the word annotate mean?

• to find the main idea

• to take the prompt apart

• to tell the reader facts, not opininos

• to mark the text

Tags

CCSS.RF.5.4A

CCSS.RF.5.4C

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RL.6.10

What IS NOT part of a PLANNING sheet?

• hook

• thesis

• evidence

• point 1 and point 2

How does it help you to remember what FADDQQ means? (fact, anecdote, dialogue, description, question, quote)

• It helps you write the thesis correctly.

• It helps you write the hook in an introduction.

• It helps you write the bridge in an introduction.

• It helps you write the conclusion correctly.

Expository essays...

• inform the reader

• tell the reader information

• do not include opinions

• all of these!

The best type of hook is a question.

• True

• False

The bridge in an introduction paragraph...

• can give background information

• gets the readers' attention

• has the main idea + point 1 and point 2

• can only be 1 sentence

Which sentence MUST be LAST in the introduction paragraph?

• hook

• bait

• thesis

• link