1. Do Now #41: Take out the causal chain you made for homework.
Working with a partner, identify and classify the different types of causes and effects in McMillan’s essay.

2. Aim: How do you organize a cause-and-effect essay?
Assess
Explore
Focus
Sketch

3. Aim: How do you organize a cause-and-effect essay?
Pre-writing
Drafting
Revising
Editing
Publishing

4. Aim: How do you organize a cause-and-effect essay?
The Prompt: Michigan native Terry McMillan had little interest in writing as a child. Not until she began working at a library did she discover great writers and a love of literature.
Write a cause-effect essay in which you analyze McMillan’s process of becoming a writer in her essay Easing My Heart Inside. What were its causes? What are its consequences? What conclusions can you draw from her essay?

5. Aim: How do you organize a cause-and-effect essay?
Narrate Causes
Show process
Chronological
Least to most
important
Emphatic/
Climactic

6. Aim: How do you organize a cause-and-effect essay?
Certain
Surely
Clearly
Definitely
Not certain
Probably
Most likely
Might well be
Transitions
First of all
One cause
As a result