Expository Essay writingThe Descriptive Essay

What is Expository Writing

• Expository writing gives information, explains something, clarifies a process or defines a concept. Though objective and not dependent on emotion, expository writing may be lively, engaging, and reflective of the writer's underlying commitment to the topic. Expository writing is characterized by the following

Purpose of Expository Writing

• Inform

• Clarify

• Explain

• Define

• Instruct

Components of an Expository Essay

• Development of a main idea

• Support the main idea using facts or examples

• Presentation of logically organized information

• Commitment to the topic

Forms of Expository Writing

• Letters

• Newsletters

• Definitions,

• Guidebooks

• Catalogues

• Comparison/contrast essays

• Cause-effect essays

• Problem-solution essays

• Research papers

• Literary analyses

Bernice Reagon

• Born in 1942

• Activist in the Civil Rights Movement as a member of the Freedom Singers, a group organized by SNNC

• Musician / Singer founder of a cappella group Honey in the Rock

•"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.”

Black Music in our handsSummary

Black Music in Our Hands

• Story of how Bernice Reagon discovered the power of music.

• Describes her role in the Civil Rights Movement

• Focuses on songs of the Civil Rights Movement, Church music, and traditional music

Critical Reading

• Purpose is to identify how the author uses the writing process to get the message across the reader.

• Black Music in Our Hands was written as an expository essay with a purpose of describing her story early roots with music.

Bernice in Jail

• As Bernice sat inside the jail cell along side everyone else she reached a new level of awareness.

• Her jail experience allowed her to connect with members of her community that she had never came into contact with before.

• The Albany Movement

• The Freedom Singers

Bernice as a LEader

• As a young leader, Bernice found herself leading younger women in song, discussions, and speaking with prison officials.

• She used music as an instrument to shape her reality.

The albany movement

• Took place in Albany, Georgia

• A desegregation coalition formed by SNCC, the SCLC, and the NAACP.

• Leaders: William G. Anderson, Martin L. King,