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The Conclusion
a) Hook
General Focus
In the future, more Americans will take a gap year as the world becomes increasingly more globalized.
b) Connecting Information
Any student with the option to travel abroad for a gap year should take it.
Traveling abroad for a gap year will help make this world a better place full of greater understanding between cultures.
Narrowed Focus
c) Thesis Statement
2. Use a quote
1. Ask a question
A good hook may:
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― Augustine of Hippo
1. How many high school graduates really know what they want to study in college?
“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad/Roughing It
3. Use a unique scenario to catch readers' attention
1. Did you know that only 37% of Americans own a passport? Why don't more Americans travel abroad?
Imagine that you have just graduated high school and you were given the option to go directly to college or to travel for a year? Which option would you choose?
4. Use a surprising or shocking statistic
Task: Identify the connecting information in the sample introduction
Task: Identify the hook in the sample essay. What type of hook is it
Lesson Objectives
What do the following concepts mean?
Body Paragraph
Connecting Information
I: Introduction
Hook
II-IV: Body Paragraphs
Thesis
Supporting Information
Facts
V: Conclusion
Introduction
Restatement of Thesis
Conclusion
Anecdotes
1. Direct Thesis Statement
2. Indirect Thesis Statement
Quotes
The main problems facing this nation are a lack of job opportunities for citizens, government corruption, and limited university programs for poor students.
Examples
statistics
Traveling to a foreign country is an invaluable experience because it exposes you to new ideas and ways of doing things, challeges your beliefs, and forces you to see your home country from a new perspective.
There are three important problems facing the nation today that require immediate attention
Expert opinion
Restate thesis
Question
Conclusion
Summarize main points
Prediction
Generalize/"Big picture"
The Body
Topic Sentences
Shocking Statistic
Concluding Sentence
The "meat and potatoes" or "heart" of your essay
Prediction/ Suggestion
Topic Sentence:
Supporting Sentences: