1. Informative/Expository Essay

2. Writing an Informative or Expository Essay
You must determine what the prompt is asking you to do.
Read and collect evidence to support your ideas.
Plan for your essay
The more you plan, the easier it will be to write
Write your essay
Read and revise
You will have 120 minutes for your essay. That is more than enough time to do all this!

3. Introduction
Hook
Attention grabber
First sentence of the introduction
Thesis Statement
The sentence that contains the central idea or ideas that you will be writing about
Body Paragraph One
Reason/Idea/Support for Thesis
Evidence
Must be relevant
Must come from your passage set – use all passages for evidence
Must be cited
Elaboration
Explain your evidence
Brings clarity to your ideas
Show connection between evidence and thesis
Body Paragraph Two
Conclusion
Summary of ideas
No new information, do not repeat everything that is in your introduction

4. Sample Prompt
Write a multiparagraph informative essay explaining the ways in which teens could start their own businesses as entrepreneurs. Your essay must be based on ideas and information found in “teen Entrepreneurs Think ‘Outside the Box’ When Starting Their Own Businesses” and “5 Tips for teen Entrepreneurs” passage set.

5. Sample Prompt
Write a multiparagraph informative essay explaining the ways in which teens could start their own businesses as entrepreneurs. Your essay must be based on ideas and information found in “Teen Entrepreneurs Think ‘Outside the Box’ When Starting Their Own Businesses” and “5 Tips for teen Entrepreneurs” passage set.
What does multiparagraph mean?
More than one paragraph
Needs to be at least three paragraphs
What is an informative essay?
Writing to explain or to tell about something
You are not trying to convince anybody

6. Sample Prompt
Write a multiparagraph informative essay explaining the ways in which teens could start their own businesses as entrepreneurs. Your essay must be based on ideas and information found in “teen Entrepreneurs Think ‘Outside the Box’ When Starting Their Own Businesses” and “5 Tips for teen Entrepreneurs” passage set.
What do you have to do?
You need to explain they ways teens could start their own businesses

7. Sample Prompt
Write a multiparagraph informative essay explaining the ways in which teens could start their own businesses as entrepreneurs. Your essay must be based on ideas and information found in “teen Entrepreneurs Think ‘Outside the Box’ When Starting Their Own Businesses” and “5 Tips for teen Entrepreneurs” passage set.
Where do you get your information?
All information used as evidence in your essay needs to come from the sources (passages) provided for you.

8. Reminders Your essay must have an introduction and a conclusion.
If you don’t you can not score higher than a 2 for Purpose, Focus, and Organization
You need to use all sources (passages)
You need to cite all evidence used
If you don’t you can not score higher than a 2 for Evidence and Elaboration
Examples of citing evidence
In the third paragraph of the passage “__________” the author states…
According to the author of “__________________”…

9. Questions