Yesterday, we started working on Unit 2. The theme of this unit is "The Truth". During the last Unit, we focused on short stories and fictional texts. Moving forward, we'll be looking at non-fictional texts such as speeches, biographies/autobiographies, and functional texts.
You can find the introductory powerpoint at this link:
http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AS8VW6c1B17JZGZwa2pqYl8ybnFucjdkNA&hl=en
You can't view the videos in the powerpoint, but you can get an idea for what we're doing. We also worked through finding the main idea of 3 different passages, which can be found here:
http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AS8VW6c1B17JZGZwa2pqYl83Zm41NG1wY3Y&hl=en
Students did well to find the main idea. Since main idea can be so similar to both topic and theme, we created the following formula for finding main idea:
Who/What is being talked about + What is being said about the who/what = 1 sentence Main Idea.
Try to encourage your child to use this formula while they read. Individual chapters and paragraphs can have their own main idea, so sometimes it's more beneficial to NOT look at the whole picture. This can be a particularly helpful exercise when helping your child study for History and Biology tests as these are information-intensive courses!
Supporting details are coming next.... stay tuned.
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