in writing concepts section of your notebook essay introductions
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- In writing concepts section of your notebook Essay Introductions
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- There are 3 main parts to an introduction: The hook The big picture The thesis statement
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- The Hook The Hook gets the readers attention (First sentence(s))- not about the story that you are analyzing. Broad. Question Anecdote Scenario Interesting Fact Quote
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- Question Have you ever Did you know What would you do if Have you ever thought someone was stalking you? What about hunting you? Would it scare you?
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- Anecdote A short true story I remember a time when Once, a man named Jack, was walking through the woods when he heard a rustling in the bushes. He realized there was a hunter waiting there and it really freaked him out. What if the hunter had mistaken him for a bear? What if the hunter was hunting men?
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- Scenario An imaginary scene that helps the reader understand the situation. Imagine Imagine being a deer during hunting season; even eating or sleeping would be a terrifying experience. Now imagine you are a man being hunted by another human.
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- Interesting Fact 95% percent of hunters say that to kill another human outside of war is murder. One of the major characters of The Most Dangerous Game fits into the other 5%.
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- Quote Something that someone important said that relates to your thesis: Walter Cronkite, a famous television news journalist, once said, The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.
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- THE BIG PICTURE Brief summary 2-3 sentences Include names of any characters you will talk about in the essay The authors name The title of the work
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- Example In the short story The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell, a world famous big-game hunter Rainsford struggled for his life against a deranged man named General Zaroff. The General made a sport of hunting the most intelligent animal there is: man.
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- Thesis (one sentence, the last) Opinion statement Plan/reasons
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- Example Person to person is the most significant type of conflict in the story because either General Zaroff kills Rainsford or the other way around.
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- Put them all together and you have The Introduction Imagine being a deer during hunting season. Even eating or sleeping would be a terrifying experience. Now imagine you are a man being hunted by another human. In the short story, The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell, a world famous big game hunter, Rainsford, struggles for his life against a deranged man named General Zaroff. The General has made a sport of hunting the most intelligent animal there is: man. In this story, the greatest kind of conflict is person to person because either General Zaroff murders Rainsford or the other way around.