1. Gilbert and Rice “Hokie Power” Team
Composing
Gilbert and Rice
“Hokie Power” Team

2. Do-Now Please read the three prompts
Your task is to craft an 8th grade hook for each prompt= you will create 3 hooks (1 for each prompt)
Make sure you use at least 2 hook techniques for each hook—see handout
You have 10 minutes (if you have your notes, you may use them)
Be ready to share out loud at the end of 10 minutes

3. Hook Activity
Find a partner (make a smart decision about who you choose to work with, please.)
You will share your hooks with your partner.
Choose the strongest hook between the 6 hooks the two of you wrote (3 per person, remember?) you have 2 minutes
You will publish the following information on the sticky note which will be placed on the board:
The hook (author’s name if you choose)
The prompt #
Techniques used

4. Have you ever been slapped in the face, looked around and saw how many kids saw it happen, and no one say anything to you? Bullying is something that middle-schoolers encounter on most days of their lives. Being an upstander in a urban middle school is one of the hardest and riskiest things a person could do. If I were to try to convince a friend to become an upstander, I would encourage them to tell an adult, have them pretend that it was their sibling being bullied, and risk being a person who stands up for what is right with the known consequence of taunting and ridicule.

5. Apply to your writing
Craft a hook for your introduction paragraph for the purple bullying prompt that you answered on Monday morning.
You have 5 minutes
Make it strong, because you will be integrating this into a final introduction paragraph at the end of the class
Publish on the purple strip

6. Introduce your topic
In order for the reader to understand what you are writing about, you must introduce the topic
You can’t hook them and then just present them with your thesis statement—you must give them a little information about yourself or the prompt or both

7. Have you ever been slapped in the face, looked around and saw how many kids saw it happen, and no one say anything to you? Bullying is something that middle-schoolers encounter on most days of their lives. Being an upstander in a urban middle school is one of the hardest and riskiest things a person could do. If I were to try to convince a friend to become an upstander, I would encourage them to tell an adult, have them pretend that it was their sibling being bullied, and risk being a person who stands up for what is right with the known consequence of taunting and ridicule.

8. Introduce your topic
Craft at least 2 sentences and no more than 4 sentences that introduce the topic of the prompt on your yellowish strip
Make sure you are pretending that the reader knows nothing about the prompt
Remember that these sentences will go in between the hook and the thesis
You have 5 minutes

9. thesis
Main Idea +
3 Supporting Details (Subjects of your 3 body paragraphs) =
Thesis

10. Model Main Idea 3 Supporting Details
If I were to try to convince a friend to become an upstander, I would encourage them
3 Supporting Details
Tell an adult
Have them pretend that it was their sibling being bullied
risk being a person who stands up for what is right with the known consequence of taunting and ridicule =

11. Have you ever been slapped in the face, looked around and saw how many kids saw it happen, and no one say anything to you? Bullying is something that middle-schoolers encounter on most days of their lives. Being an upstander in a urban middle school is one of the hardest and riskiest things a person could do. If I were to try to convince a friend to become an upstander, I would encourage them to tell an adult, have them pretend that it was their sibling being bullied, and risk being a person who stands up for what is right with the known consequence of taunting and ridicule.

12. Take notes…. Purple = Hook Yellowish = Introduce the Topic
Orange= Thesis statement

13. Exit slip
Using your purple hook, yellowish introduction of the topic, and orange thesis, combine all parts of your introduction.
Craft the final draft of your introduction for your bullying essay
You have 5 minutes

14. Have you ever been slapped in the face, looked around and saw how many kids saw it happen, and no one say anything to you? Bullying is something that middle-schoolers encounter on most days of their lives. Being an upstander in a urban middle school is one of the hardest and riskiest things a person could do. If I were to try to convince a friend to become an upstander, I would encourage them to tell an adult, have them pretend that it was their sibling being bullied, and risk being a person who stands up for what is right with the known consequence of taunting and ridicule.