Unit 6 Cause Effect Essay lecture notes

Updated Schedule

Updated English 4 Schedule • Paragraph 1: Your topic • Paragraph 2: Compare/Contrast• Midterm: Classification Paragraph• Essay 1: Descriptive Essay Draft 2 (Due May 20) • June 3: Comparison Essay Draft 2.• June 10: Portfolio and Final exam

Homework from last week• Pg. 124-125• Pages 122-123 Activity 11 & 13 (optional)• Draft 1 of Comparison Essay Next week (Page 126) But you

must choose one of these:

1. Compare or Contrast life in high school to life in university. 2. Compare or contrast two countries’ cuisines.

Check your homework PG 122

Peer Edit• Exchange your paper with another student. • Do the peer review on page 245.

(Final Exam) Unit 6 Cause-Effect

One of Two Types1. Shows the effects of a thing or event.

“The Internet is harmful in 3 ways.” “The Sewol tragedy has affected Korea in three

ways”

2. Shows the causes of a thing or event. “The Sewol tragedy was caused by three things.”“The Korean War resulted from three factors.”

One of Two Purposes

2. Inform (conclusion might give opinion, restate, suggest, predict)3. Persuade (Conclusion should have your opinion or suggest)

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Which is this?

Which is this?

Cause: Shows how one thinghas multiple causes.

Effect: Shows how one thing has multiple effects.

Page 131: Activity 1. Which titles sound like Cause-Effect Essay Titles?

Page 133 – Organizing Supporting Details

How’s this Organized?

Category

Group writing • I will give each student a topic (cause or effect). • On a clean piece of paper, please write a thesis sentence for

an essay about that topic. • Then write one supporting idea for the essay. (should be a

topic sentence)• Now pass the paper to a student in your group. Each student

will receive a new topic and must add the second supporting idea.

• Continue until the whole essay is outlined.

Example: • Topic: Why are there so many demonstrations in Korea these days?

Student 1: The number of demonstrations on the streets of Seoul seems to be increasing. There are several reasons for this. First, the sinking of the Sewol is one of Korea’s biggest disasters and the public is demanding action in response.

Student 2: Another reason is that the weather is getting better and in warmer months, demonstrations usually increase in number.

Student 3: Another reason is that elections will be held soon. This usually increases political rallies.

Student 1: In conclusion, ….

Let’s read page 136

1. What’s the hook?2. Is it cause or effect focused?3. Where do we first see the causes/effects?4. How is it organized? 5. Is the conclusion just one or two sentences?

• Activity 4 Page 138• Page 139 Connectors and Transitions• Page 140 Activity 6 (see for more practice)• Activity 7 Page 141• Language Focus Page 142-143• Page 147 and 149 good extra practice

Let’s try a timed-writing activity: Page 152