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Essay Introductions

Essay Introductions. In writing concepts section of your notebook. There are 3 main parts to an introduction: . The hook The big picture The thesis statement. The Hook . The Hook gets the reader’s attention (First sentence(s ))- not about the story that you are analyzing. Broad.

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Essay Introductions

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  1. Essay Introductions In writing concepts section of your notebook

  2. There are 3 main parts to an introduction: • The hook • The big picture • The thesis statement

  3. The Hook • The Hook gets the reader’s attention (First sentence(s))- not about the story that you are analyzing. Broad. • Question • Anecdote • Scenario • Interesting Fact • Quote

  4. 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?

  5. 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?

  6. 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….

  7. 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%.

  8. 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.”

  9. THE BIG PICTURE • Brief summary 2-3 sentences • Include names of any characters you will talk about in the essay • The author’s name • The title of the work

  10. 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.

  11. Thesis (one sentence, the last) • Opinion statement • Plan/reasons

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

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