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December 1, 2011 Agenda: +Night of the Twisters

->Finish Writing an Introduction ->Similarities and Differences Outline

Spelling/Vocabulary: Unit 7 =Vocabulary pgs. 72-73 due tomorrow=Spelling Post Test tomorrow

Homework: None

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Characters in this segment: 

Setting (Where are the characters now?):

What happened? (3­5 sentence summary): ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Night of the Twisters-Novel Night of the Twisters-MovieBOTH

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Night of the Twisters-Novel Night of the Twisters-MovieBOTH

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Writing an Introduction:

Hook: (An intriguing, exciting statement about the novel that HOOKS the reader):____________________________________________________________________

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Opening Statement: (This is an overall statement of the topic of the paper. In this case, the event of the twisters hitting a small town in Nebraska.):_____________________________________________________________________

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Statement about the novel (i.e. the author, title, main event, etc.):_________________________________________________________________________________________

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Statement about the movie (i.e. the director, the main actors, title, main event, etc.):________________________________________________________________________________________

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Thesis Statement (What you are trying to prove in your paper. In this case, that the novel and the movie have similarities and differences):________________________________________________________________________________________

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Topic Sentence: _______________________________________________________________________

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Paragraph 2: SIMILARITIES

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Paragraph 3: DIFFERENCES

Topic Sentence: _________________________________________________________________________

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