Hurray! Congratulations on all your hard work on this project. You are almost done! On Thursday you will present these wonderful books to your parents and subjects. Today you have one more thing to do: the introduction.
Begin by writing your first draft on the eeepc. Your introduction should have a good topic sentence, several (at least three more) sentences, and then a final sentence to finish things up. Here’s what we talked about including:
- Who you interviewed and relationship to you
- Briefly summarize process and your response; what you learned
- Based on an actual interview of an immigrant
- Why you did this — part of your long immigrant study
- Final sentence as a “hook” to encourage the reader to turn the page and read on.
Once you’ve completed your draft, read it over, revise as needed, spell check and look for capitals, punctuation, and sense.
Then you may sign up to have it checked by a teacher.
Make any final corrections, format for your book, print, cut it out to fit, and then paste it into your book!
(If you haven’t yet, you may also put in a dedication. Check how other writers do it in the books we have around.)