Please help! 1. Opening sentence: Grab your audience with a hook.
2. This sentence states your thesis or claim: what are you going to prove in this paragraph.
3. Introduce the passage from the book/play that you are going to quote. (for example: In Act 1, Scene 3, we meet Macbeth when he has just returned from battle)
4. Write the quote and the page number. (for example: The first witch says, “.”) (Shakespeare, page 3)
5. Say in your own words what is being said in the quote and why it is important.
6. This is your concluding sentence. Refer back to the claim. What part of your evidence (the quote) proves that your idea is correct?