Titles

A strong title of a story, narrative essay, persuasive essay, etc. Ideas -

• Sounds interesting (Makes the reader want to read essay)

• Main words are capitalized

• Provides reader with a picture or image in their mind

• Captures the essence or MAIN IDEA of the essay

• Different or slightly unusual

• Phrase that makes you think

• Alliteration (repeating of consonant sounds) Maniac Magee,

• Connect with THEME of your essay.

• Focused on the SMALL Moment

• Gives reader and idea about what essay (plus its conflict, theme,etc.) is about

• Reflects the tone or MOOD of your essay

Title Samples -

The Terrible Toothache

The Mess of the Mustard Mash

What it's Like to Like Potatoes

Breaking Dawn

Out of my Mind

Maze Runner

Ants in my Pants

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

A Mango-Shaped Space

Family Friends FOREVER

The Outsiders

The Lady Next Door

The Running Dream

Goodbye Stranger

The One and Only Ivan

The Knife of Never Letting Go

Sea Monster Masquerade

Out of Reach

Lesson in Falling

Harry Potter

Divergent

Flamingo Dingo

Ketchup, Mustard, No Relish

Pip, Pip, Cheerio

The Second Life of Abigail Walker

Ending of My Story

The Beginning

The End

Half Way Around Saturn

One for the Murphys

The Beginning of the End

A Wrinkle in Time

Mustard Versus Shoe

The Backwards Way

There's a Rainbow Around Every Corner

A Whole 'Nother Story

The BFG

Falling Up

Maniac Magee

Dance Hall Bully

Boogie Woogie Bully

Magician's Nephew

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

The Mustard Mash

All the Wrong Questions

There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom

Rejection

The Choice

The Dance

What it's Like to be a Potato

Smash of the Tendon

Mustard Mess

My Strange Life

Saving Thomas

Flat on my Back

She-Wolf Life

Truly Turtles

Crash

The Graveyard

Pokefail

The Doll in the Garden

Runaway

Friends are Forever

French Onion Soup

Troublemakers

The Spoon

Wonder

The Last Olympian

The Last Man on the Earth

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Holes

Chime

The Night of...

The Worst Years of my Life

The Whipping Boy

Snitch

The Best Years of my Life

The Dab

My Last Words

The Last

Escaping "The Release"

Chicken Boy

The Last of Us

A Year in the Life of a Complete and Total Genius

The Wonders of Imagination

All the Wrong Answers

The Difference

What If?

The Seventh Most Important Thing

Little Did We Know....

Owl Sector

The One that Got Away

The Lost Track of Time

The Kid with the White Vans

The Giver

The Receiver

The World Without You

The Slave Dancer

Hot Diggity Dog

The Life of Pablo

Two Bucks Too Late