STUDY GUIDE PACKET 3 Main Idea & Inferences

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Did you memorize my tenets for the test?
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STUDY GUIDEPACKET 3 Main Idea Inferences
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MAIN IDEACENTRAL POINT(stated or implied)

• Major Details Proof
• Minor Details Fluff

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1st find real TOPIC

• Specific angle about a subject
• (best way to hold a football-not just football)
• Phrase
• (2 or more words)
• Hint ask what is this about? Raising kids,
  feeding cats, or
• Training dogs? No, its about

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Ask so what about the best way to hold a
football?

• Youll find the main idea
• Youll find the central message
• Youll be able to write a general summary of the
  section of writing
• Youll find a possible test question

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What is a topic? 1 or 2 wordsNOT A SENTENCE
Topic is the anchor

• Thesis what I want to prove
• Main Idea sentence
• A. Proof (major detail)
• 1. Example (minor detail)
• Main Idea sentence
• A. Proof (major detail)
• 1. Example (minor detail)

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What is a main idea?

• Central message/all-inclusive or general summary
• Its the answer to
• so what about the TOPIC?
• The author thinks that..
• Hes trying to get across that..
• ITS ALWAYS A SENTENCE.

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Recognizing the main idea in a piece of writing.

• Someones most important point
• Someones main argument
• Someones stand on an issue
• Someones central focus bout a thing, a person
• Someones controlling idea
• Someones central thought in an essay
• Someones thesis in a longer piece of writing

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What are details?

• MAJOR details prove your point
• who what when where how -
• MINOR details
• what kind of colors times - feelings

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Title My Years as a BLAH Topic How to
succeed at Blah Blah Thesis You should Blah
Blah Blah (introductory paragraph gives
your opinion and how you will prove it.) I.
Main idea for success reason 1A. Major Detail
proof 1. Minor Detail Fluff
II. Main idea for success reason 2 A. Major
Detail proof 1. Minor Detail
Fluff
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MAIN IDEAS CAN NEVER BE A DETAIL!!!
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Hubbles Hint

• In a multiple choice situation, find the details
  first.
• Mark off
• Left with MAIN IDEA
• BECAUSE
• Main ideas/central points cant be in 2 places at
  once-can you?

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Grasp Vocab Infer Meaning Metaphors Similes Iro
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Test items essays
See others point of view
You must get the MAIN IDEA from someones thoughts
COMP I II
Lab Reports Speeches
Draw Conclusions
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Think back to AnnotatingThink back to Reading
Process

• Before previewing
• During integrating new to old
• Recall after each section recall what they
  said. It forces you to select the main idea
• THEN
• Put those thoughts in the margins as you read and
  only re-read your ANNOTATIONS!!

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What is Annotating?
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Remember!

• We usually talk in main ideas so talk out loud to
  yourself as you study.
• You will spit out main ideas!!
• Keep paying attention concentration for
  sentences that summarize all his/her points.

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Watch out for implied main ideas or unstated
thoughts.

• Dont panic you do this all the time!
• You say what did you mean by that?
• So, I see how it is.
• Do I have to spell it out for you?
• The main idea may be in the details or hints or
  veiled words someone is saying to you.
• All writing is someone talking to you.

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STYLE SUGGESTIONSthey just dont come out and
and say it!!

• SPEAKERS
• AND
• WRITERS
• IMPLY ideas

• LISTENERS
• AND
• READERS
• INFER ideas

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For Instance Authors can infer point of view
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ONE My name was Salmon, like the fish first
name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered
on December 6, 1973. In newspaper photos of
missing girls from the seventies, most looked
like me white girls with mousy brown hair. This
was before kids of all races and genders started
appearing on milk cartons or in the daily mail.
It was back when people still believed things
like that didn't happen.
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Lets review

• What is the difference between the topic and the
  man idea in someones writing?
• What is the difference between a main idea that
  is stated and one that is implied?
• Why is it important for students to know how to
  determine the main ideas of paragraphs?

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NEXT STEPS

• Complete Cornell notes and Exercises in packet
• Complete practices in textbook as assigned

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Reading Skill

• Anyone can draw an inference.

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Getting the M.I. Through Inferences

• Inferences are ideas that are
• Suggested, assumed, hinted
• NOT literal
• Inferential Reading describes
• Motives, feelings, Judgments
• Uses figurative language similes,
  metaphors

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Figurative Language Types

• Simile comparing using like or as
• Your brain is like a walnut in many ways.

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Metaphors direct comparison (no like or as)
My mother was the oak in my life.
Keep on the right pathway to be a success!
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Not the usual metaphor.

• Nobel Prize winner G. Becker says, children are
  really refrigerators expensive to have them, to
  maintain them and to repair them, but they live a
  long time and can return great services to their
  parents for years.

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Personification human characteristics to
nonhuman things

• My mirror has a mean streak in it.
• The wind sang her mournful song.
• The microwave timer told me it was time to eat.
• The video camera observed the whole scene.
• The rain kissed my cheeks as it fell.
• The water beckoned invitingly to the hot swimmers.

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Idioms phrases, expressions to make a point,
not literal

• Dont get stuck in the rat race at work!
• Sometimes I feel like a fish out of water here.
• I always put my foot in my mouth around my boss.

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Verbal Irony used to express a thought that is
the opposite of what you mean

• My bosses are a regular
• Laurel and Hardy!

• You break a date with your girlfriend so you can
  go to the ball game with the guys. When you go to
  the concession stand, you run into your date who
  is with another guy!

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MARK TWAINon irony

• Its ironic that every time you stop a school,
  you will have to build a jail. What you gain at
  one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding
  a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the
  dog.speech 11/23/1900

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To understand comedy jokesis to understand
main ideas, inferences figurative language.
Have you ever said I dont get it! when
listening to a comedian?

• "Comedy is the only branch of writing that is
  defined by the effect it has on people," he said.
  "It's no easy task but you're always able to
  tell if you've succeeded."
• Garrison Keillor

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• Warning
• When detecting inferences, keep your prejudices
  in check. Listen.
• Dont leap to conclusions-- check your facts!
  Printed words are not absolute truth.
• If you cant back up what you say, youre
  inferring called gossiping!!

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To Get Ready for Test 3

• Complete Metacognitive Thoughts
• Complete Study Guide in Packet 3
• Finish 5 worksheets in Packet 3
• Finish the questions about Scouts
• Complete book assignments
• Complete Vocab Quizzes on Blackboard