Essay Choices for assignment

1. Expository Essay- Know – retell, recall

Expository essays are simply essays that explain something with facts, as opposed to opinion. Expository essays are often written in response to a prompt that asks the writer to expose or explain a specific topic.

Example: Explain the forces that oppose your main character in their heroic journey.

Look at recurring symbols in your novel. What is their purpose?

Tools: Quote Integration , evidence from the text, literary devices, themes

2. Narrative /Imaginative Essay- Feel- create,relate

The imaginative essay is a creative non-fiction essay that investigates the author's feelings or reactions to a novel. As a rule, teachers asks students to complete an imaginative essay in order to be aware of their creativity. Usually, imaginative essays start with a hypothetical situation and ask you how you would respond to it.

Example: Imagine that Rue does not die. How would her story evolve?

Narrative tells a story in a sequence of events. There should be some point, lesson, or idea gleaned from this narrative to make the essay meaningful. It is an essay that relates an experience that taught the writer something or that had an important effect on the writer.

Example: Peeta teaches Katniss some valuable lessons about life. Explain.

Tools: Five Senses, imagery, atmosphere, mood of the piece, Description to paint a vivid picture, active verbs

3. Compare/ Contrast- Think- analyze , classify & find patterns

Compare/Contrast highlight the similarities between two or more similar objects while contrasting highlights the differences between two or more objects.

Example: Compare the heroic adventure of Katniss in The Hunger Games to another heroine in literature or history.

Tools: T-Chart, Venn Diagrams, point-by-point comparison or block comparison,

            citation,  quotes integration