Semester A Unit 3 Lesson 8
Introduction and Objective
You have learned about central idea but how do you determine exactly what the text is about? We know you can look at the title and headings. But what else? What is provided in the text? Details are provided. These details are important.
Today's lesson objective is: students will be able to use evidence from a text to determine what the text says explicitly.
Think about some of the learning skills we have used to determine central idea. Would any of these be useful when determining explicit textual information? We could probably make a list of details in the text and analyze the text to see how the author uses structure.
Open your digital notebook and describe your strategy and the …show more content…
An analysis is breaking a large topic into smaller pieces. This is done to better understand the subject in the text. An analysis is written in your own words. You are not telling the reader about the main viewpoints of the author or what the writing is about, but exploring the structure and the details of the text. The reason for breaking the text into parts is to understand it better. It is easy to confuse analysis with a summary. They both have few similarities in the introductory paragraph but overall they have different structures. A summary does not include opinions, but an analysis can. A summary just retells; an analysis can retell, but also includes inferences and conclusions.
You can make inferences and draw conclusions in an analysis. Just like we have done before, you take what you know with what you are reading and make inferences and draw conclusions.
Before writing an analysis that includes inferences and conclusions, a reader must understand what has occurred in each chapter and the purpose of including.
Let’s review.
The Worst Hard Times is broken into sections and chapters. Within each chapter the author is trying to communicate a central idea and details that support the
Introduction and Objective
You have learned about central idea but how do you determine exactly what the text is about? We know you can look at the title and headings. But what else? What is provided in the text? Details are provided. These details are important.
Today's lesson objective is: students will be able to use evidence from a text to determine what the text says explicitly.
Think about some of the learning skills we have used to determine central idea. Would any of these be useful when determining explicit textual information? We could probably make a list of details in the text and analyze the text to see how the author uses structure.
Open your digital notebook and describe your strategy and the …show more content…
An analysis is breaking a large topic into smaller pieces. This is done to better understand the subject in the text. An analysis is written in your own words. You are not telling the reader about the main viewpoints of the author or what the writing is about, but exploring the structure and the details of the text. The reason for breaking the text into parts is to understand it better. It is easy to confuse analysis with a summary. They both have few similarities in the introductory paragraph but overall they have different structures. A summary does not include opinions, but an analysis can. A summary just retells; an analysis can retell, but also includes inferences and conclusions.
You can make inferences and draw conclusions in an analysis. Just like we have done before, you take what you know with what you are reading and make inferences and draw conclusions.
Before writing an analysis that includes inferences and conclusions, a reader must understand what has occurred in each chapter and the purpose of including.
Let’s review.
The Worst Hard Times is broken into sections and chapters. Within each chapter the author is trying to communicate a central idea and details that support the