AGENDA:
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Journal #10
Read article independently (skim reading)
Groups:
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Identify information from article to complete
scavenger hunt
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Create poster
o Gallery Walk for everyone to complete scavenger hunt
BY THE END OF CLASS, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
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Collaborate with peers to identify key information
Identify symptoms and ways to alleviate test anxiety
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* Lack of transitions and topic sentences
* Titles are important
* Each body paragraph needs to be used to prove your main idea/claim.
Make sure you show this to your reader/make it very clear and easy to
understand
* After you state the author’s or character’s full name, you can refer to
them by their last name/first name
* Authors= always their last name (based on relationship)
* Analysis is more important than summary, but some summary is
necessary
* Set your quotes up; don’t just throw them in there: “The story says”
“The author says”
* Never start or end a paragraph with a quote
* “In my opinion” “I think” “As you should know” “This to me” “Like”
* “I” and “You”
* Indent paragraphs (TAB)
* Sentence length and variety
* Identify an Implied Main Idea
*The implied main idea must be broad enough to
cover all the details, but it can not be too broad
*To find the implied main idea, you should create a
summary from the supporting details into one
sentence.
*Identify topic, then ask “what does all the
supporting details say about the topic?”
*Answer=main idea!
Green tea has been used for thousands of years in
Asia as both a beverage and an herbal medicine.
This herbal tea contains catechin, which is a type of
tannin that acts as an astringent. Research suggests
that men and women in Japan who drink five to six
cups of green tea each day have much lower rates
of cancer than people who do not. Green tea is also
thought to lower cholesterol and blood sugar,
control high blood pressure, stop tooth decay, and
fight viruses. Green tea has even been credited
with the power to slow down the aging process.
__Green tea is an ancient herbal drink.
__Green tea has caught the attention of medical researchers.
__Green tea has many positive properties as a health drink.
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*Prove to me and yourself that it is time to
move on from main idea identification
*Read each passage
*Identify which sentence illustrates the
main idea of the passage
*If you need to, identify the topic and then
figure out what you learn about the topic.
*What do the supporting details support?