A truism:
Something that is about ALL people- life in general.
Which of the following are NOT truisms:
1. The little frog is in trouble.
2. In life, the bigger you are, the more you get your way.
3. Life is better when you have someone to look up to.
4. The little frog should stab the big
frog in the eye with the pencil. Duh.
5. Unfortunately, it is often the strong
who survive and the little who are
eaten.
Try it (draw a picture):
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1. Explain how showing courage is important.
2. Explain how people we admire inspire us.
3. Explain how fear can paralyze you.
4. Explain how objects that are important to you
can remind you to do your best.
• 5. Explain how challenges help to develop
character.
• 7. Explain how good leaders inspire us .
Copy the following statement
Choose your battles wisely.
Examples of History and Movies
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Bride wars
EL Paso Rio Grande dispute
Real Steel
General Custer vs Sitting Bull
Vietnam War
Cowboys vs. Aliens
King John the Lion Heart w/ crusades
Titanic
Possible thesis statement:
• Write a thesis statement explaining why it is
important to pick your battles wisely.
Turn in your Write Source book to p.
193
Expository Writing:
Understand the prompt
Plan time wisely
As you write:
Decide on a focus or thesis for your essay
Be selective – examples
Use rhetorical devices – repetition, parallelism,
restatement
End in meaningful way
READ
• “The truth is that our finest moments are
most likely to occur when we are feeling
deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled.
For it is only in such moments, propelled by
our discomfort, that we are likely to step out
of our ruts and start searching for different
ways or truer answers”
THINK
Answer:
• Write an expository essay that explains how
challenging situations or circumstances can develop
our character.
• Confidence, determination, strength, wisdom, skill,
humility, perseverance, hope, faith, knowledge,
• Harriet Tubman, George Washington, Martin Luther
King, Rosa Parks, Ghandi, Samuel Robles, Hellen Keller,
Mozart, Forrest Gump, The Persuit of Happiness, The
Panic, The Color Purple, The Help,
Answer:
• Write an expository essay that explains how
challenging situations or circumstances can develop
our character.
• Without challenges we would never grow or change.
It is overcoming difficult situations or trials that
develops stronger, wiser, more skilled people.
• Courage, confidence, bravery, strength, responsibility,
faith, belief, trust, smarter, intelligence, wisdom,
perseverance, determination
• Forrest Gump, Source Code, Blindside, George
Washington, Martin Luther King, Obama, Anne Frank,
Tim Tebow, My Sister’s Keeper, Pursuit of Happiness
Answer:
• Write an expository essay that explains how
challenging situations or circumstances can develop
our character.
• Faith, hope, skills, determination, confidence, pride,
willpower, conviction, integrity, courage, leadership,
perseverance, self-control, strength, wisdom,
intelligence, love
• Goal, Forrest Gump, Real Steel, Saving Private Ryan,
The Warrior, Save the Last Dance, The Blindside, Friday
Night Lights, Abraham Lincoln, Tebow’s mom,
Write
• Write an expository essay that explains how
challenging situations or circumstances can
develop our character.
• Leadership conviction perseverance courage
intelligence strength confidence
Forrest Gump, Shania Twaiin; Tebow, Blindside,
Friday Night Lights, My Sister’s Keeper, Life Is
Beautiful, A Walk to Remember, Abraham Lincoln,
Rosa Parks, Paul Revere, Obama,
Truism: It pays to pay attention.
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Explain
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Literature
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Movie
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Own experience
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Wonder
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(Just one sentence each)
For exactly 60 seconds:
• In your OWN words, explain
what the statement means.
For the next three minutes
(you must write the entire
time) tell how it's true in a
piece of literature or story
(poem?) – anything you
have read!
• For the next three minutesexplain how the statement
is true in a movie or TV
show or video game.
•For the next three
minutes, please explain
how this statement is
true in history.
•Thanks.
WHEW!
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For ONE minute, write about all the things you
wonder...
Write any questions that you may have
about the statement or what happened
to YOU; What would you like to
know? What do you wonder about?
Utilizing what you wrote
• Fill in the Essay worksheet based on your
writings.
• First write your thesis or truism.