write your short essay (paragraph) Listing ideas, facts, or opinions for each of the topics below. Your brainstorming lists should correlate to the type of essay:

expository

narrative

persuasive

1. The community has imposed a curfew of 10:00 P.M. for teenagers under 18, including weekends.

Brainstorming list: Persuasive

Top Choices

• How to make a Tiktok video or Instagram page
• How to make a... (pick a specific food item)
• How a specific sport (choose one) is played
• How to ace a test

Step One:  Select a topic to write about and record it in the box below:

Step Two: Brainstorm about ideas about your topic that you should write about.

Step Three: Select three sub-topics that you are going to focus on. A strong paragraph will not try to cover everything about your topic. Instead, it will address three SUB TOPICS that are related or fit together logically.

Top Choices

• How to make a Tiktok video or Instagram page
• How to make a... (pick a specific food item)
• How a specific sport (choose one) is played
• How to ace a test

Step One:  Select a topic to write about and record it in the box below:

Step Two: Brainstorm about ideas about your topic that you should write about.

Step Three: Select three sub-topics that you are going to focus on. A strong paragraph will not try to cover everything about your topic. Instead, it will address three SUB TOPICS that are related or fit together logically.

In which type of essay would you find the following sentence?

Cell phones should never be allowed in an educational setting.

A. personal - describes an experience or event in someone's life

B. expository - explains or gives information

C. persuasive - attempts to convince readers to think or act in a certain way