Expository Writing

This week the students began writing a short expository composition to get ready for their upcoming expository speeches. Students chose a famous person or interesting animal to write about and research. We wanted students to have some freedom in their writing to make the composition fun and interesting. We hoped to introduce and develop of the following skills in their four paragraph expository composition. *Write an engaging introduction that tells the main idea. *Create a paragraph for each main topic. *Support each topic with at least two facts or examples. *Write in the third person. Focus on facts, not opinions. *Use your own words. Don't plagiarize! *Show how your ideas are connected. *Write a conclusion that sums up the main idea of your report. *Include a bibliography.