When to Use an Apostrophe & Creating a Decent Hook

 

1). When do you use an apostrophe ( ' ) and when do you not?  Watch the video below to learn the answer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDU3nBcv9Q8

2). Now complete your language homework in your writer's notebook (REWRITE THE SENTENCES COMPLETELY IN YOUR NOTEBOOK).

3. Watch the following video on hooks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnq17dyxyu4 Then turn to a new page in your writer's notebook and create 5 hooks for your Pet Peeve writing.  Write an example for each of the following techniques:

-Metaphor/Simile/Analogy (rather than an inverted pyramid)

-Fact or Statistic (give credit to the source)

-Anecdote/personal experience

-Rhetorical Question

-Bold Statement 

*If you like one of these hooks better than the hook you created yesterday on your outline, change your hook in your outline.

4. Watch the following video about the difference between a thesis statement and a topic sentence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx2-PcBzZjo

5.  Then reread your thesis you created on your outline yesterday.  Change/Rewrite/Edit to make it better than what we wrote down the day before.

6. Watch the following video on writing an introductory paragraph. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3COR_IKG2c Then open a Google Doc. or Microsoft Word document and compose your introductory paragraph.  Look back on your outline from yesterday so you can check you have all the parts!  Make sure to save your work!