Learning Target: I can use a hook to strengthen my introduction.

1. Learning Target:I can use a hook to strengthen my introduction.

2. What is this?

3. What is an introduction? • It introduces your essay. • It contains several points: • Hook • The pieces of evidence you will present (topic sentences) • A counterclaim • A thesis statement

5. Argument Essay Question • Should junk food be banned from schools?

7. What is a hook?

8. 5 types of hooks • Anecdote – A short Story about an experience used to make a point. • Quote – A quote from a text, song, etc. you use in your writing, but written by someone else. • Drop your reader into a scene – Use sensory details to describe a scene giving your reader an immediate sense of place and time. • Surprising Fact – is an interesting piece of information that your reader is unlikely to know. It makes your reader say, “Really?!” • Rhetorical Question – Is a statement in the form of a question. It is used to make a point, not get an answer.

9. SAMPLE HOOKS • http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/magazines/scope/pdfs/SCOPE-110810-REPRO-19.pdf

10. What Could Be Better than a Touchdown? • Hook? • Why?

11. Turn to page 89 in your Code X Book • Hook? • Purpose?

12. LET’S TRY WRITING A HOOK

13. Partner Work • HOOK: • CLAIM: • EVIDENCE 1: • EVIDENCE 2: • EVIDENCE 3: • COUNTERCLAIM:

14. Summary Stop Light Routine

15. Homework • You will use the following link to read a short debate http://www.timeforkids.com/news/debate/103106. • You will then vote (yes or no) • You should write down your vote, 1 piece of evidence, record the number of votes as proof of the assignment.

16. Journalism Extension

17. Learning Target • I can apply my knowledge of introduction and claim and apply it to informational text.

18. Your Turn • In groups, you will be given a different argument text per group. You will choose one side of the argument presented and turn it into a sample introduction, which must include all of the components of an argument. You will then write your group introduction on chart paper.

19. Here is how you do it…

20. Carousel Walk • Your job when you approach the poster is to provide feedback. • Give a “Glow and a Grow” to each poster.

21. Fix It Up • You should use the feedback from the other students to adjust your work.

22. Summary • Please share with the class the topic, your introduction and what you fixed based on feedback.