Thursday (2/28)

Timed Prompt

-Writing an informational Essay

1. Teacher read PSSA instructions to the class.

2. Students wrote for 30 minutes on the following prompt:

Think about the places you have visited in Pennsylvania. Select one.

Write a letter to inform your grandparents who live in another state about your special trip or unique experience. (i.e. Maybe you found some fossils on a field trip to the power plant or maybe you dug up a special trinket in your back yard) Tell your grandparents about this location or experience and why you chose it for your topic.

*provide enough details to let your reader know what this place is like.
*include only details that are specific and relevant in explaining why you chose this area as your topic.
*present your ideas clearly and logically.
*use words and well-constructed sentences effectively.
*correct any errors in spelling, punctuation, and capitalization.





Informational Writing: Material through which an author shares ideas, facts, or instructions by helping the reader to compare familiar items with items that are not familiar.

In other words, an informational essay explains a process or shows the reader how something works.

Informational writing offers factual, unbiased, and expansive information. Informational essays may be based on research, or may be a personal essay based on personal thoughts and observations. (i.e. something you have firsthand experience with.)

Differing from many other types of essay, the writer’s job is to explain and inform without offering an opinion or developing an argument.





1.5.11 d WRITE WITH A COMMAND OF THE STYLISTIC ASPECTS OF COMPOSITION
1.5.11c WRITE WITH CONTROLLED ORGANIZATION
1.5.11a WRITE WITH A SHARP , DISTINCT FOCUS
1.5.11 b WRITE USING WELL-DEVELOPED CONTENT APPROPRIATE FOR THE TOPIC