Composition Patterns: Cause and Effect

This resource explores cause and effect. This teacher/student resource provides explanations, examples, visuals, and passages of cause and effect.

Standards & Objectives

Essential and guiding questions: 

Questions to Ponder:

  • In what ways is this cause-and-effect paper similar to an essay that is developed by means of Classification or Analysis? Is it also like a Process Essay?
  • Are you convinced by the arguments presented in the essay? Why or why not? Should the writer have spent more time considering opposing points of view?
  • There are some interesting efforts at humor in this essay. Are they effective?
  • Can you point to this essay's Thesis Statement?

Lesson Variations

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Applying

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