In writing concepts section of your notebook Essay
Introductions
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There are 3 main parts to an introduction: The hook The big
picture The thesis statement
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The Hook The Hook gets the readers attention (First
sentence(s))- not about the story that you are analyzing. Broad.
Question Anecdote Scenario Interesting Fact Quote
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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?
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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?
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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.
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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%.
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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.
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THE BIG PICTURE Brief summary 2-3 sentences Include names of
any characters you will talk about in the essay The authors name
The title of the work
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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.
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Thesis (one sentence, the last) Opinion statement
Plan/reasons
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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.
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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.
