The End Effect

Teacher edition · Grade 7 · Lesson 15 · Literature · The Writing of Literature

Writing Book 7 · sheet 54

What a reader is left holding is decided by the last line.

2. Your turn

In your notebook: apply The End Effect to three sentences of your own, double-spaced.

Below is what a full, correct answer looks like. Children's wording will differ and should — mark the thing this lesson taught, not everything at once.

Read out one sentence that uses The End Effect.model — accept any answer that does the same job

3. Before you finish

Read out one sentence that uses The End Effect.

Watch forAccept the feeling, then insist on the words. Without the second half this becomes a lesson in having opinions.