• Expository Essay

Explains, gives information, or clarifies difficult ideas

Prompts = universal ideas

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• Different from RTL?

Typically, no exact quotes from a text

No “you,” “us,” “we,” but I is acceptable!

Often provided with a quote on the prompt

How could you use this???

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Failure leads us closer to deeper knowledge and to new lines of inquiry. Thomas Edison experienced 10,000 failures before he succeeded in perfecting the light bulb. When a friend of his remarked that 10,000 failures was a lot, Edison replied, “I didn’t fail 10,000 times, I successfully eliminated 10,000 materials and combinations that didn’t work.” Myles Brand, “Taking the Measure of Your Success”

Prompt: What is your view on the idea that it takes failure to achieve success? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.

“The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them”—Woodrow Wilson

Prompt: What important life lessons do people learn through hardships? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from any of the following: your reading (any articles we read in class, etc.), studies, experiences, observations.

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Prompt: What important life lessons do people learn through hardships?1. Throughout life, dealing with adversity and hardship

can teach a person valuable coping skills.2. Life is often challenging, but being confronted with

hardships and adversity can teach people valuable coping skills and to learn from their mistakes.

3. People learn very important lessons throughout life when they experience difficulties.

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Prompt: What important life lessons do people learn through hardships?

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  To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Steve Jobs speech: “You’ve got to find what you love” “Homeless” by Anna Quindlen “The Best Gift of My Life” Cythia Rylant “The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls ‘Teen charged with texting while driving in fatal crash” by Kyle Hopkins “12 charged with manslaughter in Florida A & M band hazing” by Matt Pearce “Sherriff: Taunting post leads to arrests of Rebecca Sedwick bullying death” by Steve

Almasy Any short stories covered first semester or anything else you’ve ever read

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