Wednesday, November 13 Main Ideas

Objective: By the end of class, students will ANALYZE PASSAGES and determine main ideas in order to synthesize information from different sources on the same topic.

DO NOW

Write this down in notebooks:

The main idea of a  passage is the point of the passage, minus all the details. 

The topic of an article is what the whole article is GENERALLY about. 

Direct Instruction

main idea video

So, for first article we read yesterday:

THE TOPIC = ??

THE MAIN IDEA =

Guided

Read the second article pages 328-30 about the Iceman - annotate as you read. Complete all side bars.

Independent

Complete the following tasks for each article to be collected :

1. Summarize the article in 3-5 sentences

2. List any vocabulary words you do not know from this article

3. What is the MAIN IDEA of this article? We know the TOPIC is the ICEMAN mummy found in the Alps in 1991 - but was is this article telling you most about him?

4.In paragraph form,  analyze the author's style of writing this article.  Are the sentences long or  short? Is the vocabulary difficult? Are there many descriptive words creating imagery? Are word choices and combinations simple or complex? What is the tone? (Is it matter of fact, or forceful, or surprised, or amazed?/ - how do you know).

Exit Pass
What is the biggest difference that you notice between the two articles? The first is from the internet - the second from a magazine