CLASSIFICATION ESSAY
Goal: to teach INRW students
1) to write a 5-paragraph classification essay.
2) to make a Power-Point presentation showing a scientific classification
3) to present in public
4) to revise and edit their work
5) To review selected readings from the book and Internet
Objectives:
1.
provide a definition of classification
2.
explain principles of classification
3.
use simple and complex forms
4.
practice patterns of classification
5.
find examples
6.
use Power Point
7.
attach pictures from Internet
8.
provide an example
Reading Material:
1.
Readings: Annie Chen’s “Types of Hepatitis”
2. essay info.com/ essay s/ classification _ essay .php animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/ classification /Canida e.html
1. Definition of Classification by Division
Classification is the process of arranging persons, places, objects or ideas into groups or categories based on certain characteristics that separate them from other groups.
Activity 1 – arrange the following words into meaningful categories. Think, this word is a type of ________.

Then make a chart with the name of the categories on top.
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Houston pencil love orange
Boy computer friendship girl
2. Principle of classification
Once you have categories, make sure that all the elements inside fit into the same organizing principle. For example, a dog belongs to the family of canines. However, there are many species of canines grouped according to certain features (organizing principle for each genus.
Fruits City Gender Relationship
Apple Houston boy friend
Orange girl pencil
Place Feeling Professional
Room love teacher
Activity 2 – go to Google.com, write dog classification; read the different types (genus); understand what makes each of them different. Look at the classification provided in the next page. Since the Genus Canis has many examples, we will choose that one as our example. What is the principle of differentiation within Genus Canis?

1.Genus Canis (dogs, jackals, and wolves)
Species Canis adustus (side-striped jackal)
Species Canis aureus (golden jackal)
Species Canis latrans (coyote)
Species Canis lupus (gray wolf)
Subspecies Canis lupus dingo
(dingo)
Subspecies Canis lupus familiaris
(dog)
Species Canis mesomelas (blackbacked jackal)
Species Canis rufus (red wolf)
Species Canis simensis (Simian jackal)
Activity 3 – Make a diagram
Go to the ruler on top of your Microsoft Word file. Click on diagram and choose the first one.
To add boxes click on the top box “Click to add text” and add seven boxes for the species and click on the bottom boxes to add 2 subspecies.
Click on each box to add the text. Write the classification principle in each of them. As you may have noticed, the principle is based on their fur color and design.

Genus
Canis
Fur type and color
Canis
Adustus
(
Side striped
Jackal
Canis
Adustus
(jackal
Activity 4 – Find examples for each of these classes: save pictures, find information about their habitat, and get sounds from this site.
Make a Power Point presentation to show in class.
Homework:
Find a scientific classification in Internet. It could be one about volcanoes, clouds, minerals, animals, plants, rocks, tsunamis, etc.
Make a diagram as shown in class and GET IT
APPROVED by the instructor. Then make a
Power Point presentation of about 10 – 15 slides. You should add pictures or use video clippings if you can find any. Then write an essay with the information obtained
Power Point Presentation

Your first slide should include the title, author, class and class time
The second slide is an Introduction with the following sentences: general, specific, definition, and thesis (What are you going to do in the essay?)
The third slide is your outline. It should contain the following information:
1.Classification
2.classes
3.Principle of classification
4.pictures
5.habitat and sounds
6.conclusion
Then write an essay following the format explained in class
Introduction
Body paragraph (explanation of the first class. What makes this class different from the other ones?) and example
Other body paragraphs (2, 3, 4, etc)
Conclusion (Summary of everything you said avoiding unnecessary repetition)

Groups for English 0300: 8-9:30 MW
1.Cristina and Victoria- solar system
2.Armsstrong and Cook = genetics
3. Ortiz and Erick – fish (sharks)
4.Briones and Garcia – volcanoes
5.Lara and Jessica – Plants
6.Picard –
7.Thomas
8.Vanessa and Carpio – Earthquakes.
GROUPS FOR ENGLISH 0300: 11:12:30
1.Jolley – Blood Types
2.Bijendra – mountains
3.Rodriguez – plants
4.Thuy – flowers
5.Harrison – volcanoes
6, dogs – Bailey and Charles.