Write a paragraph to complete a sample expository essay. Then review your paragraph and the essay as a whole and make changes where needed to ensure that the style is appropriately formal. Your assignment should include the following elements: A freewriting exercise that shows how you developed your ideas for filling in a gap in an existing expository essay A body paragraph built from the freewriting exercise Evidence of editing for a formal style; this includes making big-picture edits, as well as more detailed proofreading

Read the passage from a raisin in the sun. mama: lord have mercy, baby. you done gone and bought your grandmother a hat? travis (very proud): open it! she does and lifts out an elaborate, but very elaborate, wide gardening hat, and all the adults break up at the sight of it. ruth: travis, honey, what is that? travis (who thinks it is beautiful and appropriate): it's a gardening hat! like the ladies always have on in the magazines when they work in their gardens. beneatha (giggling fiercely): travis—we were trying to make mama mrs. miniver—not scarlett o'hara! mama (indignantly): what's the matter with you all! this here is a beautiful hat! (absurdly.) i always wanted me one just like it! which word or phrase from the text best supports the idea that the adults think the hat is inappropriate? “have mercy” (giggling fiercely) (indignantly) “what’s the matter”