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Hooks – Organization Trait

Hooks – Organization Trait. They went to a funeral. What images do you have in your mind now? Why is this picture different than the one on my previous slide? What makes an introduction so important?. After reading intro of Crispin. No more “Once upon a time” or “One Day I was”…

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Hooks – Organization Trait

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  1. Hooks – Organization Trait

  2. They went to a funeral.

  3. What images do you have in your mind now? Why is this picture different than the one on my previous slide? What makes an introduction so important? After reading intro of Crispin

  4. No more “Once upon a time” or “One Day I was”… Boring verbs: am, is, are, was, were, etc. ADJECTIVES! ADVERBS! ACTION VERBS! Power Words

  5. Your task: take a boring lead sentence to a story and make it interesting. Use an action sentence to make your lead sentence pack a punch. Transformation

  6. The girl was scared. The downtown was noisy. The sun was high in the sky. Notice that you have a sentence about a person, another about a place, and another about a thing; you can make any of these sentences more intriguing! Three examples:

  7. Sally's fingers gripped the roller coaster bar so tight that they turned white as vanilla ice cream and waxy like a candle. The car in front of him blared its horn, but Dave hardly heard it above all the other city noise and racket. Noon blazed across the vast desert, and Pennsylvania Smith's canteen had recently been drained dry. Three NEW Examples

  8. Your examples?

  9. From http://writingfix.com/Chapter_Book_Prompts/Crispin2.htm I had a nice summer. My homework was missing. He had played the game all day. My parents were mad at me. The fish was happy. The movie was funny. Boring to Awesome

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