Here’s how I have set up this lesson:   

Having been trained in the America’s Choice Writer’s Workshop as well as History Alive, I have my students keep a Writer’s Journal with a running Table of Contents.  This is a journal that serves as a student-created textbook of sorts.  If your class doesn’t keep such a journal, having them take notes and keeping it in their binder will do as long as the students have access to the information as a reference guide to use in writing any essays that come their way.

The following Powerpoint should be shown in conjunction as students take notes on how to write a proper Hook.  It allows for student choice because it teaches so many different styles .  At the time of its creation, I was teaching CORE (Language Arts and History) so the examples I have used integrate both subjects.  The subject for the mythical essay that I am writing is “The Plague” so you’ll notice that the Hooks cover the same topic but in different ways to introduce the same paper.  (...)
Read the rest of Hooks Powerpoint: or, How to Get a Reader’s Attention (167 words)

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