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Feature Story
A feature story in a newspaper tells about an interesting event or person.
Its purpose is to inform and entertain. A feature story needs a catchy lead.Its paragraphs should be logically developed and include lively details.

Dinosaurs Disappear—Again
Lead grabs
attention with
a surprising
detail.

Hawkins, who cameto the United States in
1868, is famous for his giant models of “terrible
lizards.” Working from bones of the extinct beasts,
Hawkins had constructed life-size statuesof
dinosaurs such as the 30-foot-long iguanodon. The
models were said to be frighteningly realistic.

Quote by
sculptor adds
interest and
captures mood
of outrage.The public was eagerly awaiting the unveiling
at the opening of a special museum in New York’s
new showplace, Central Park. That hope was
destroyed when unknownvandals broke into
Hawkins’s studio last night. The enraged sculptor
said, “This is awful! These creations cannot be
replaced. How could anyone destroy them?”

Finalsentence
concludes story
and gives reader
something to
think about.

Even the pieces of the statues are missing.
Like the dinosaurs they represented, the statues
havedisappeared from the face of the Earth.

Unit 3 The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins

Writing Model

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Paragraph tellsabout Hawkins’s
unusual work.

A sculptor’s dream of a museum filled with
dinosaurs was broken last night—literally! Life-size
models of dinosaurs by British sculptorWaterhouse
Hawkins were bashed to pieces just as they were
about to be placed in the Paleozoic Museum in
Manhattan’s Central Park.

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