This document provides examples and information about expository text. It defines expository writing as writing meant to inform, explain, describe or define a subject. It lists different types of expository text like textbooks, encyclopedias, and newspapers. It describes different structures for organizing expository writing, such as sequence/time order, listing, compare/contrast, and cause and effect. The document includes examples and keywords for these different structures. It provides links to examples of different types of expository text structures for students to review. Finally, it outlines expectations and a rubric for a student project to create an expository news article about an aspect of ancient Greek culture.

1. Examples of Expository Text
Miss Harbolt’s 6th grade class

2. Expository Text
• Expository Writing is a mode of writing in which the purpose of the
author is to inform, explain, describe, or define his or her subject
to the reader

3. Examples of Expository Text:
• Textbooks
• Encyclopedias
• Scientific books/jounrals
• Directions
• Guides
• Biographies
• Newpapers
• Articles

4. Different types of Expository Text
• Sequence or time order
• Listing
• Compare and Contrast
• Cause and Effect
• Problem-Solution

5. Each type of Expository Writing has Key words:
Sequence or Time
order
Listing Compare and
Contrast
Cause and Effect Problem- Solution
First, second…
Not long after
Next
Then initially
Before
after
For instance
For example
Such as
To illustrate
Most important
In addition
Another
Furthermore
First, second…
Also
To begin with
Different from
Same as
Similar to
As opposed to
Instead of
Although
However
Compared with
As well as
Either…or
But
On the other hand
unless
Because
Since
consequently
This led to…so
If….then
Nevertheless
Accordingly
Because of
As a result of
In order to
May be due to
Yet
For this reason
Not only…but
also
Problem
The question is
A solution
One answer is

6. 15-year-old girl invents flashlight powered by
the heat of your hand
As the internet and apps era has taken hold, younger people — often in
their early twenties or late teens — have been achieving some incredible things,
such as building hit mobile games or selling their startups to corporations for
large sums of money. Lately, young teens participating in science fairs have also
achieved some incredible things, such as this 15-year-old girl who created a
flashlight powered by the body heat of one’s hand.
A 15-year-old high school junior from Victoria, British Columbia, Ann
Makosinski, created a hollow flashlight powered by the holder’s body heat for the
Google Science Fair. The invention made her one of 15 finalists, who will travel to
Mountain View, California for a prize ceremony held this coming September.
Google will choose one winner each out of three age groups, then from that will
decide on the final winner, who will receive a grand prize of $50,000 and a trip to
the Galapagos Islands.
Makosinski said she’s been quite interested in harvesting unused
energy in the surrounding environment, which led her to discover Peltier tiles.
Peltier devices, as people who get super into heat sinks know, produce electricity
when one side of the tile is heated while the other side is cooled. This, in turn,
led Makosinski to attempt to use Peltier tiles to provide enough power to an LED
for it to generate enough light. She found it did provide enough power, but it
didn’t provide enough voltage. Rather than give up, she reworked the circuit to
allow for transformers, which would help increase the voltage. After buying — as
well as building — circuits that didn’t get the job done, she eventually came
across one that claimed to provide the necessary voltage. She bought it, and it
worked.

7. Take about 10 minutes to review some
examples of each: (click on the links below)
• Advice Column: Problem – Solution
• Sports in the Future: Cause and Effect
• Air Quality: Compare and Contrast
• Do Well in School: List
• History of Olympics: Sequence/Time Order

8. For your New Article Project …
Students will…
• Create an expository news article on an aspect of the Ancient
Greece culture.
• Society
• Social interactions
• Beliefs
• Clothing
• Arts
• Education
• Food
• Sports
• traditions
• Classes
• Expression and Written Language
• Religion
• Common ideas
• Etc.
Think about what defines your own culture.
Thursday 3/13/2014 : Research and Rough Draft
Friday 3/14/2014 : Receive posters for Final Draft

9. Expectations
1. Use at least two resources (primary and secondary)
2. At least Five traces of ancient Greek Culture
3. In Detail answer the questions: Who, What, When, Where, and How
4. Headline in Bold and two images with Captions describing the image
5. Spelling and Grammar with two or less errors
6. Creativity, ―Eye Catching‖, and neatness

10. Category 4 3 2 1
Use of primary and
secondary source
information
Use of primary and
secondary source
information is
exceptionally included
in article
Use of primary and
secondary source
information is adequately
included in article
Use of primary and
secondary source
information is
inadequately included in
article
Use of primary and secondary
source information is not
included in article
Indication of
ancient Greek
culture
Indication of ancient
Greek culture
providing at least five
cultural items or facts
in a creative and
expressive way
Indication of ancient Greek
culture providing five
cultural items or facts in a
creative and expressive way
Indication of ancient Greek
culture providing four
cultural items or facts in a
creative and expressive
way
Indication of ancient Greek
culture providing three cultural
items or facts in a creative and
expressive way
Who, What, When,
Where and How
All (100%) of the 5 Ws
are addressed in the
article
80% of the
5 Ws are addressed in the
article
60% of the
5 Ws are addressed in the
article
40% of the
5 Ws are addressed in the
article
Headline and
Caption
Article has a creative
headline with 2
pictures and a caption
for each picture
Article has a creative
headline with 1 picture and
a caption for the picture
Article has an adequate
headline with 1 picture
and a caption for the
picture
Article has an adequate
headline with no picture
Spelling and
Proofread
Article has 0-2
spelling and/or
grammatical errors
Article has 3-4 spelling
and/or grammatical errors
Article has 5-6 spelling
and/or grammatical errors
Article has more than 6 spelling
and/or grammatical errors
Rubric for Newspaper Article Project

11. More Resources
Government
http://www1.curriculum.edu.au/ddunits/units/ls1fq2acts.htm
http://www.ancient.eu.com/Greek_Government/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9vEQkjkoi0
http://www.ancient.eu.com/Greek_Government/
Social structure
http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/sirrobhitch.suffolk/portland%20state%20university%20greek%20civilization%20home%20page%20v2/do
cs/7/ryan.html
Sports
http://www.pbs.org/empires/thegreeks/educational/index_html.html
http://www.pbs.org/empires/thegreeks/educational/index_html.html
http://www.pbs.org/empires/thegreeks/educational/index_html.html
Drama
http://www.pbs.org/empires/thegreeks/educational/index_html.html
Women/Metics/Slaves
http://www.pbs.org/empires/thegreeks/educational/index_html.html
http://www.pbs.org/empires/thegreeks/educational/index_html.html
http://www.pbs.org/empires/thegreeks/educational/index_html.html
http://www.pbs.org/empires/thegreeks/educational/index_html.html

12. More Resources continued
Extra presentations to view:
http://prezi.com/uaqr5dwyyufu/ancient-greece/
http://prezi.com/1fknwamz0hdq/ancient-greece/
http://prezi.com/tlkjdil2wxwh/chapter-7-section-2-ancient-greece/
Interactive websites to view:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/ancient_greeks/
http://www.pbs.org/empires/thegreeks/educational/index_html.html
http://greece.mrdonn.org/powerpoints.html