- Turn in your November Book Assignment if you haven't done that yet.
- The assignment: November Book of the Month.docx Click on the Download tab to open and print this document.
- If you need to finish it or redo it, do so as soon as you can.
- Your December book will be science fiction or fantasy.
- If you went to the party for the 40 Book Challenge (10 books or more), please come see me. Thanks!
- Post - Test on Main Idea and Supporting Details next time
- Composition Book Check next week
1. Individual Reading
2. More on Central Idea
Too Narrow, Too Broad, Just Right
A Narrow or a Broad Topic?
Main Idea:
Summary of the passage
What you would say to a friend to briefly summarize the passage or article or essay
NOT too broad & NOT too narrow
The overall idea of the passage
Just enough information to get what it is about
What the author wants the reader to know about the subject
It helps you make sense of the passage
It could be used as a topic sentence or thesis statement
The focus of the passage
Narrow Idea:
Details about the main idea
Gives descriptive or elaborative information
May describe something in the passage
Helps us visualize part of the passage
Not enough information to get the whole idea
It could be a fact from the passage
Makes you want to know more
One single part of the overall subject
A specific idea or concept in the passage
Describes something that happened or what someone did
Broad Idea:
Lacks details
Too general
Doesn’t really describe very much
Covers many possible topics
Too big to be main idea
Doesn’t help visualize much in the passage
Can go lots of different directions
Open idea
Wide, a variety of topics can fit within this statement
- Example: http://readinggurus.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/group-brainstorming-activity-sheet_weedsample.pdf
- Handout/Assignment: Go through an example of a central idea, one that is narrower, and one that is broader.
- Handout/Assignment: In groups of two or three, fill out the rest of the tables.
3. More on Essays and the Rubric -- Translate the back of the page.
4. The Outsiders and Characters
Character
|
Description
|
Ponyboy
Darrell/Darry p. 6-7
Sodapop p 7-8 Johnny p. 11-12 Steve Randle p. 9 Two-Bit Matthews p. 9-10 |
14 years old gray-green eyes
light brown, almost red hair long hair for a boy
likes to watch movies and read books
20 years old, the oldest brother, 6'2", rough without meaning to be, isn't sorry, broad-shouldered, muscular, dark-brown hair, eyes like pale blue-green ice, tough, cool, smart,
16 going on 17, happy,
scared, was mugged, 16+
Soda's best friend |
If you were absent,
review the information about main ideas above,
ask for the worksheet on main ideas and supporting details -- Broader, Main Idea, and Narrower,
complete the back of the rubric for writing informational text,
catch up on the chart for characters from The Outsiders.
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Links for more information about Central Idea (Main Idea):
Music for Main Idea on YouTube(Building a Paragraph)
or
Main Idea Song on TeacherTube
