What is an Introduction to an Essay All

Ways to Write Introduction: 1. Lead with a question? Who was Paul Revere really?

3. Begin with a memory or flashback? I can remember vividly the night of

4. Use a famous quote or poem. Listen, my children, and you shall hear

5. Begin with a definition. A silversmith or goldsmith was one who made objects

Slides: 5

What is an Introduction to an Essay? • All essays need an introduction. • The introduction should grab the reader’s attention, set up the issue, and lead to your thesis. • Your intro is merely a buildup of the issue: “A Chapter in Paul Revere’s Life”

Ways to Write Introduction: 1. Lead with a question? Who was Paul Revere really? What would you do if you were in his shoes? 2. Describe the time period he lived in. Thirteen separate colonies acting independently of each other. That is what America was like before 1776. Boston Massachusetts was not a safe place for a patriot…

3. Begin with a memory or flashback? I can remember vividly the night of April 18, 1775. My trusted stead had worked up quite a lather as I pushed him through the Massachusetts countryside on my way to Concord and Lexington. Wisps of steam rose from his nostrils like twin chimneys. The leather of the saddle creaked and rubbed with each step of the horse’s stride. I was determined to deliver my message. The fate of the colonies depended on my arriving on time.

4. Use a famous quote or poem. Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight right of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year. (Longfellow)

5. Begin with a definition. A silversmith or goldsmith was one who made objects from the precious metals silver and gold.