1. 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 Warm-ups & Wrap-ups The Brain Glue & View The Body Branching Out

2. Do you ever wonder why some people drive the way they do?

3. What is the Question Attention- Getter?

4. Once when I was driving on I-95, a bizarre thing happened.

5. What is the personal story attention- getter ?

6. “To drive or not to drive, that is the question.”

7. What is the quotation attention- getter?

8. All of these weird driving habits are driving me crazy.

9. What is the summary wrap-up?

10. Sometimes I think most of the drivers in Miami bought their licenses at Walmart. What do you think?

11. What is the question wrap-up?

12. The main idea of the essay

13. What is the thesis?

14. In this essay I will explain various annoying driving habits

15. What is the “announcement” thesis?

16. There are over one million drivers in our fair city.

17. What is a dead-end thesis?

18. Some annoying driving habits include driving too slowly, following too closely, and changing lanes without signaling.

19. What is a thesis with a plan of development?

20. Some annoying driving habits include driving too slowly, when they follow too closely, and also to change lanes without a signal.

21. What is a lack of parallel structure thesis?

22. The main idea of each paragraph

23. What is the topic sentence?

24. The plan of development is the source for these

25. What are body paragraph topic sentences?

26. Facts, stories, examples, analysis

27. What are methods of support and development?

28. A body paragraph without an explicit topic sentence

29. What is an implied main idea?

30. A specific example used to further illustrate a detail in a body paragraph

31. What is a minor supporting detail?

32. A required part of the essay, the only place where an incomplete sentence is allowed

33. What is the title?

34. No quotation marks allowed on yours

35. What is the title of your essay?

36. Words or phrases that signal movement from one idea to the other

37. What are transitions?

38. Complete sentences, often the first sentences of body paragraphs 2 and 3, that signal the movement of one major idea to the next?

39. What are transitional topic sentences and/or transitional sentences?

40. Five to seven spaces left blank at the start of each paragraph

41. What are indents?

42. An essay structured around a list of examples

43. What is the exemplification essay?

44. An essay structured around a personal story

45. What is the narration essay?

46. An essay that focuses on similarities and differences

47. What is the compare and contrast essay?

48. An essay that analyzes the causes and/or the results of a situation

49. What is the Cause-Effect Essay?

50. An essay advocating a controversial position

51. What is the argument or persuasion essay?