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Explanatory Essay
Student writer Darrell Wade loves nature and science. He wrote the following explanatory essay to explore the science and wonder of a natural phenomenon.
Polar Light Shows
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The beginning grabs the reader’s interest and leads to the thesis statement (underlined). The first record of the northern lights comes in a 30,000-year-old cave painting in France. From that time to this, people around the world have looked up in hopes of seeing one of these dramatic light shows. Curtains of red and green billow across the sky or whirl overhead. Auroras seem to cast a mystical spell on observers, but science can explain how they come to be.