Expository Essay
Subject: Something I Am Good At
Due: November 18, 2009
Ideas: Sports, Dance, Electronic Games, Babysitting, Cooking, Fashion, Friend, another hobby???
Create an assertion about your talent: I am good at ____________
because I am talented/practice a lot/frequently done/natural ability/etc.
Assertion: What you think and why you think it.
Introductory Paragraph: Includes assertion and one fact about your activity.
Body: Includes evidence and details about you excelling at your chosen activity. Answers the following questions and explains:
1. Why do you like the activity?
2. Why you know you are good at the activity?
3. Examples of when you have done the activity?
Conclusion: Restate assertion and summarize your evidence and details from body paragraph. No new evidence or detail is given.
Cover page: Photo/copy of photo or hand drawn picture related to topic, title and proper heading.
Rubric for Expository Essay: Something I Am Good At
Description Points Points
Possible Earned
Idea Map 10 _____
Assertion clearly stated in Intro & Conclusion 10 _____
Fact included in Intro and is cited 10 _____
Edited Rough Draft written in double spaces 10 _____
Body contains three different descriptions
Of evidence/details 10 _____
Works cited page in correct format
(p. 420 Language Network book) 10 _____
Final Draft 10 _____
Cover Page has title, P.H., illustrations 10 _____
Completed and submitted on time 11/18) 10 _____
This rubric page included, as last page 10 _____
Optional/Extra credit: Oral presentation 10 _____
Total points earned _____
90 – 100 = A, 80 = B, 70 = C, 60 = D, 0 – 50 = F