Lesson Title: SOL Review: Engaging Hooks

Length of Lesson: 20-30 mins

Unit: The Art of Storytelling (Part 2)

In this lesson… students will work on writing purposeful and engaging

Overview hooks based on released SOL writing prompts.

WRITING

8.7 The student will write in a variety of forms, including

narration, exposition, persuasion, and informational.

a) Identify intended audience.

b) Use prewriting strategies to generate and organize
Standards of ideas.
c) Distinguish between a thesis statement and a topic
Learning sentence.
d) Organize details to elaborate the central idea and
provide unity.
e) Select specific vocabulary and information for
audience and purpose.
f) Use interview quotations as evidence.
g) Revise writing for clarity of content, word choice,
sentence variety, and transitions among paragraphs.

How can I hook my reader into an essay?

Essential Questions
Students will be able to… write engaging hooks on various SOL
Objectives prompts.

Learning Target I will understand what makes a good hook.

1. Promethean Board
2. Hook WS
Materials 3. Pencil

Introduction
1. Ask students what they think makes an engaging hook.
Introduction/Hook 2. Review the types of hooks they may want to use (NO questions!)

Instructional Telestrations Knock-Off Game

Discuss the instructions with students (also printed on WS):
Activities & 1. Read your individual prompt and don’t share with anyone.
Strategies
 2. With the prompt you are given, write a creative and engaging
hook in the box below.
3. At once, everyone will pass their papers to the RIGHT. The next
person must rate the hook based on how intriguing it was. Then,
you should attempt to rewrite what you think the prompt was.
4. Everyone will pass again to the RIGHT. The next person writes a
hook based on the previously written prompt.
5. Repeat!

Do this activity until the paper makes it fully around the table or until
time runs out.

Ask students if they found a correlation between how engaging a

particular quote was and how accurate the new prompt written based off
Closure Activity of the hook was. Share a few noteworthy hooks. Collect worksheets
from students.

The hook worksheets will be collected for a possible participation grade

Assessments or simply to monitor student progress.