1. Turn in Vocabulary 23 (back page only)

2. Lightening Review: How to find central themes and main ideas

3. Wrap-up: Central themes and claims

4. Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text: School’s Out . . . Forever

5. Pre-test: Transitions

AA

1. H.E.L.P. points

2. Claim statements

3. Conclusions about point of view and purpose (on your square)

4. Study for vocab quiz: Friday

Topic: Point of View and PurposeLevel: Drawing conclusions

January

16

Yesterday we . . .

1. Battled Deep Blue.

2. Determined central ideas or themes of a text by noticing, recording, and calculating instances of word repetition.

Today’s Objectives

• Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.

• Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.

• Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text relate to each other and the whole.

Yesterday’s C - Notes

• TOPIC: Finding Central Themes / Stating Claims

• ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How do I find the central theme or main idea in a text?

Determining Central themes

1. As you read, look for ideas that get repeated. Mark (highlight) the repeats.

2. Ask and answer: How do the repeated ideas relate to the topic itself? (Why go to school?)

3. Write the central idea of the text in your own words, as a claim:

• Education makes you independent.

• School is the key for accomplishing something in life.

On Your Square

Write a claim that represents the central theme (or main idea) of Blog 2.

Your claim must integrate all five of the repeated words.

• school

• life / living

• imagine

• learn / learning

• understand

Statement # 1

• school

• life / living

• imagine

• learn / learning

• understand

Without school, it would be hard for most people to imagine how to understand and learn the essential things in life.

1. Does this statement accurately reflect the author’s use of the 5 words?

2. Does it represent the author’s main idea completely and accurately?

3. Is it written as a claim—a philosophical statement about how the world works?

Statement # 2

• school

• life / living

• imagine

• learn / learning

• understand

I go to school because it helps me to imagine, learn, and understand life.

1. Does this statement accurately reflect the author’s use of the 5 words?

2. Does it represent the author’s main idea completely and accurately?

3. Is it written as a claim—a philosophical statement about how the world works?

Statement # 3

• school

• life / living

• imagine

• learn / learning

• understand

Blog #2 is talking about how school is very important. It talks about how you can’t live without it. It tells you to imagine your life without it. You learn everything in school. You understand more when you go to school.

1. Does this statement accurately reflect the author’s use of the 5 words?

2. Does it represent the author’s main idea completely and accurately?

3. Is it written as a claim—a philosophical statement about how the world works?

Statement # 4

• school

• life / living

• imagine

• learn / learning

• understand

School and learning allow us to understand and imagine the world in a different perspective so that we can go down a greater path in life.

1. Does this statement accurately reflect the author’s use of the 5 words?

2. Does it represent the author’s main idea completely and accurately?

3. Is it written as a claim—a philosophical statement about how the world works?

Statement # 5

• school

• life / living

• imagine

• learn / learning

• understand

With no school, living life would be unimaginable, and learning and understanding would be difficult.

1. Does this statement accurately reflect the author’s use of the 5 words?

2. Does it represent the author’s main idea completely and accurately?

3. Is it written as a claim—a philosophical statement about how the world works?

Write a Note!

• school

• life / living

• imagine

• learn / learning

• understand

1. What is effective about the statement of main idea?

2. What needs work?

1. Does the statement accurately reflect the author’s use of the 5 words?

2. Does it represent the author’s main idea completely and accurately?

3. Is it written as a claim—a philosophical statement about how the world works?

How do POINT of VIEW and PURPOSE shape content and style?

What is POINT of VIEW ?

1. The author’s stand on a topic, idea, or situation.

2. What kinds of things create an author’s point of view?

experiences friends

religion geographic location

gender income / status

family education

How do POINT of VIEW and PURPOSE shape content and style?

Read Blog #1 for POINT of VIEW

1. What is the author’s claim about education?

Education is necessary in order to ______________________________________________.

2. List three values that probably influenced this author’s claim.

3. Does his “point of view” affect his claim? Why?