Pick up your composition book and then read your nonfiction book quietly. Read the announcements below. 
Announcements and Reminders:
If you did not take your Argument Writing Post Test, you need to arrange for an hour after school. I will be available after school on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. December 13-15.
If you need to retake the Argument Vocabulary Test, study for it! We will take it next week -- Tuesday during Cavetime. Argument Terms/Vocabulary. Plan to retake it if you received 13 points or less.
See me if you received less than 28 on your Argument Writing Post Test. Before you do make-up work, review and learn what we have studied about writing an argument essay: what each of the five paragraphs is and what each needs, transitions, formal style, evidence, explanation, citing your sources, etc. I will be available after school on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, December 13-15.
If you haven't signed up for your book of the month, do so now. Please make sure it is nonfiction. Have the book read and be ready to write your assessment on December 19/20.
If you have not finished or revised and edited your Outsiders essay, do that right away!
If you need to retake the Argument Vocabulary Test, study for it! We will take it next week -- Tuesday during Cavetime.
Pick up your composition books.
Santa letters are now available for the Macy's Make-a-Wish Fund Raiser.
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Targets for Today:
I can read a wide variety of fiction and nonfiction.
I can find the central idea in nonfiction.
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Today’s Agenda:
1. Individual Reading
Pick up your composition books. 2. Central Idea: Take these notes in your composition book under NOTES! Notes on Finding a Topic
Use these clues when looking for the topic of a passage :
illustrations, captions
titles, headings, subheadings
repeated words
synonyms
pronouns
Notes on Finding or Creating a Central Idea (aka Main Idea)
Central Idea = topic + the idea the author is stating about the topic
Central Idea and Topic Sentence are synonyms.
We usually talk about the "Central Idea" when we are talking about nonfiction.
The "central idea" in fiction is called the theme.
The Central Idea must be a complete sentence.
The Central Idea will NOT be a question. It must be a statement.
Flocabulary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KTQYoPhsKg
Main Idea -- Detective
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-1DZWNVBT4 A1 watched just this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42SJTk2XSi4 A2 watched both. https://learnzillion.com/lesson_plans/8593-determine-the-central-idea-of-a-nonfiction-article A1 watched part of this -- took notes on W's and steps, then stopped. 3. Sample for book project Sample for Nonfiction Book Project
4. How They Croaked: Tone and Central Idea
Authors make choices!
Listen to Chapter 1: King Tut
Last time -- This Time
Class A1 got to page 4 at the top. Today they finished Chapter 1 -- began Chapter 2
Class A2 got to page 5, last paragraph, finished Chapter 1 -- began Chapter 2
Class B5 got to page 4 at the top, finished Chapter 1, did not begin Chapter 2.
Class B6 got to page 5, at the end of the first paragraph. -- finished chapter 1, watched 1 minute and 48 seconds of "The Good Death."
-- needs example of circle for finding central idea.
Day 2
Finish filling out your question sheet,
then on the back, use the "tem-plate" to draw a circle.
Julius Caesar -- page 11
Leave the very center blank for the Central Idea.
Write what you think are important supporting details around that space.
Watch for repeated words and ideas.
What do several sentences and paragraphs have in common?
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If You Were Absent:
See above.
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Vocabulary:
Central Idea:
Supporting Details: Tone: attitude |
https://learnzillion.com/lesson_plans/8593-determine-the-central-idea-of-a-nonfiction-article
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/stopping-sharks-by-blasting-their-senses-36581191/
Finding central idea
repeated words
repeated ideas
what do many or most of the sentences seem to be saying?
