Wednesday: Gathering evidence

Today your writing target for your final essay is to find at least three pieces of evidence for each point or claim in your essay.

See my sample again:  http://goo.gl/BH6iNi

Tomorrow you will be writing your introductory paragraph and reviewing vocabulary words for test on FRIDAY-Lesson 14!

Parts of an Intro Paragraph: review for tomorrow:

• HOOK: Engage your reader!
• introduce the book title, author and topic.  Briefly summarize the story (1-2 sentences)
• THESIS-theme statement--this is main point that you are trying to prove!!!