1. Get your Performance Assessment book please 
Agenda:
Informative Essay Practice
Get your Performance Assessment book please 

2. Informative = Expository
An informative essay, also known as an expository essay, gives the reader detailed information about a specific topic.
Informative/expository essays are usually written in five paragraphs.

3. Tips on Expository/Informative Writing
It should be fact-based.
Facts can be quotes, statistics, definitions, names, dates, events.
It should be formal.
Remember who your reader is (the teacher!).
Use examples.
Explain what you mean.
Don’t be overwhelmed. You have a lot of valuable stuff to say. Your teachers want to read it.

4. What Informative/Expository Writing Looks Like
Five paragraphs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
First paragraph: Introduction
States the thesis and the main things you’ll talk about in the Body
Second, Third, Fourth paragraphs: Body
HUGE amounts of detail, fact, and example
Fifth paragraph: Conclusion
Nicely summarizes everything

5. Essay Requirements You are writing this in class.
Upon entering class tomorrow, I will pass out essays so we can peer review and share what we are struggling with.
This is formative – but AWESOME practice for the VLT.
You must cite at least 2 pieces of evidence (1 from each source) and remember to use citing introductions (see PROVE IT! board).

6. Tuesday 9/22, we did…. Planning / Prewriting
Page 50 – Decide on key points you want to discuss
Collect textual evidence.
Create your thesis!
Remember to restate the question as a statement (as you answer the question) and give SPECIFIC examples.
What adaptations allow deep see creatures to survive in extreme environments?

7. Write an informative essay to answer this question:
What adaptations allow deep sea creatures to survive in extreme environments?
This essay is a brief version of your vlt model
Only 3 paragraphs including:
Introduction
1 AWESOME body paragraph including at least (2) citation.
Conclusion