You have previously written ideas in your Informational Research Chart. Now you will use your ideas from the Research Chart (and tips from this lesson) to write the introduction to your informational article. In your introduction, be sure to include: a statistic or surprising fact in your hook one to two sentences of important information regarding your topic your thesis written in the third person point of view without feelings or emotions four or more sentences in your introduction Write in third person point of view and use correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Save your work to your computer or drive. Submit your work in 02.06 Focus On the Introduction. PRINT

21 balloons is the story of professor william sherman's travels.

in 1883, he set off from san francisco for a balloon ride over the pacific and was found a month later floating with 21 balloons in the atlantic ocean. this seemed an astounding feat and everyone wanted to know what had happened.    

professor sherman was loyal, however, and said he would tell his tale first to the western american explorers club in san francisco, of which he was a member. this built up suspense for several chapters before he began to tell of the wonders of his adventures and the amazing island of krakatoa, an island which had just been blown up by a volcano.  

the residents of krakatoa are all millionaires who live under a "gourmet government" of their own devising. we get to see all the incredible adventures that creative people with unlimited resources would create according to the author.

there is no woman's sides

can bide the beating of so strong a passion

as love doth give my heart; no woman's heart

so big, to hold so much; they lack retention.

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by explaining that it took the same total time to travel by plane as it did by train