Write About a Topic

🧭 Now that you have read your article/short story, write a 5-paragraph, informative essay about your chosen topic. What you will write about will depend upon what you've read:

• If you've chosen to read an article (or other non-fiction passage), describe a process, item, or idea, using evidence from both the passage and your own personal experiences to support your analysis.

• If you've chosen to read a short story, instead, write a brief review/reaction to the story by discussing the following:

  1. Whether or not you enjoyed the story and why/not? (e.g. What did you like/hate about the story/characters?)

  2. What did you think about the author's style/writing techniques? (Remember to give & explain specific examples.)

  3. Would you recommend this book to someone else? Why/not?

Follow the steps, below, to help you organize and draft your essay.

🥾1: Prepare to Write

Graphic Organizers

You may use any or all of these tools to help you organize your thoughts before you begin writing:

• The KWL will help you connect what you learned from your reading with your previous experiences, so that you can collect your thoughts before you begin writing.

• The Cause-and-Effect graphic organizer will help you identify the relationships between events.

• The Comparison-Contrast Venn Diagram will help you identify differences and similarities between events, items and/or ideas.

• The Thesis Generator will help you create a strong, clear thesis statement for your essay. This statement is basically your essay in short.

• The Essay Outline will help you plan your essay, so that you know what you're going to talk about and how you're you're going to go about it.

💡 You may skip all of these and use the Essay Generator, below, to help you draft your essay.

Writing Body Paragraphs

🥾3: Revise your Essay