As you can see, Miss Matich has been posting all about our home learning Autobiographies. Check out this link and hopefully you will start writing like MAD!!!
Here are some Ideas:
Begin with something personal. A secret, a wish, a dream, a quote, a belief, a fear, a love. A favorite first line in a movie I liked was, "Did I ever tell you about the time I almost died?" Hook the reader! You are interesting, something in there will catch fire once you open up and put it down on paper!
Treat it like any other "hook." You want to grab your audience's attention so that they want to read your paper.
A few good ways to start any paper include the following:
1. using a startling statement - shock your audience or use an appalling statistic
2. using a relevant quotation - make sure to provide proper attribution
3. ask a question - make sure to avoid second person in formal writing
4. an anecdote - a short story that appeals to the audience emotionally (may be a funny story)
Think about who you are or what you want to become in life and rip us with a really exciting start sentence. For example:
Example 1: Creating stomach cramps from laughter is my ambition in life. One day, I hope to play the Improv as a stand up comedian.
Example 2: From the emergency room again, my Dad was right there to comfort me. Quite the "stunt man" as a child, I would give my parents many scares.
Hope it Helps!
It's nice to start out a story with a specific example of something that happened to you. It should be an incident that you describe in detail, something that would make someone laugh or cry or just be intrigued, like they would ask themselves, "What is happening here ?". In journalism they refer to that as the "lead"; it makes the reader want to read the entire story.
You can use the website to get more help:
Happy Home-learning!!!
~Grace
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