Introduction Paragraph

Hook: (Topic Sentence: Include book title and author)

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Summary of your book: (3-4 Sentences)

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Big Idea Themes:

A few themes shown in my book
Many themes including: ___, ___, ___, were shown

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Theme Statement: (Overall Lesson): THIS WILL BE YOUR THESIS STATEMENT

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Body Paragraph #1

Topic Sentence: (relate to proving your theme)

Introduce your quote:

Choose 1
For example
This was shown when.
The author demonstrated this when.
For instance
Specifically
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QUOTE:

Explain how your quote relates to the theme statement:

Choose 1:
This shows
This demonstrates
This illustrates..
This proves
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Body Paragraph #2

Topic Sentence: (relate to proving your theme)

Introduce your quote:

Choose 1
For example
This was shown when.
The author demonstrated this when.
For instance
Specifically

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QUOTE: (SUPPORTS YOUR THEME STATEMENT)

Quotation marks go around the text you quote from the book. After the quote, put parentheses followed by the page number and a
period after the parentheses.
Example: Little red riding hood ran fast all the way home, (p. 33).

Explain how your quote relates to the theme statement:

Choose 1:
This shows
This demonstrates
This illustrates..
This proves
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Body Paragraph #3

Topic Sentence: (relate to proving your theme)

Introduce your quote:

Choose 1
For example
This was shown when.
The author demonstrated this when.
For instance
Specifically

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QUOTE: (SUPPORTS YOUR THEME STATEMENT)

Quotation marks go around the text you quote from the book. After the quote, put parentheses followed by the page number and a
period after the parentheses.
Example: Little red riding hood ran fast all the way home, (p. 33).

Explain how your quote relates to the theme statement:

Choose 1:
This shows
This demonstrates
This illustrates..
This proves
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Conclusion:

1. Restate your theme statement (thesis), but use different wording to avoid straight repetition.
This is to remind your reader of your central idea.

2. Write a few sentences of how the book connects to your theme statement / the lesson of the
story.

4. Explain why this theme is important to all people, why your reader should care about it?

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