FOA

Use these words in a sentence that shows true understanding of the meaning of the words.

AnalyzeArticulate

Cite

Theme, central/main idea and POV

I can determine an author’s POV in the text as well as determine the CI of a text and cite evidence to support my analysis.

What is central/main idea?After you read a book or see a movie, do you ever tell someone else what it is about? When you do this, you state the main idea. The main idea is what something is mostly about.

Main idea/central idea

Main idea = central idea

Main ideas are typically found in a literary passage.

Central ideas are found in an informational text.

Use the WIN strategy to help determine the central/main idea:

WHO/WHAT - Figure out the most important who or what

INFORMATION - Figure out the most important information about the who or what

NUMBER OF WORDS - Write the main idea using the fewest possible number of words

Theme

The theme is the lesson or message that the writer wants to get across in his or her story.

Usually theme is a statement about life or the way the world works. People apply these lessons or ideas to their own lives.

How do I find theme?

To find the theme, ask yourself, What lesson did the main character in the story learn or fail to learn? Other questions to ask yourself:

What is the moral of the story?What lesson is the author trying to teach?Which idea in the story can relate to everyday life?

How are the theme and central idea developed throughout the text?

• Through characters’ actions• Through key plot details• Through the conflict

Common themes

The more you read, the more you will notice that some themes are used again and again. Here are some common themes:Too much pride can destroy a personCrime does not payTreat others the way you want to be treatedGoing through hard times can make a person strongerLove conquers all

Now you tryIdentify theme and strategies of finding theme within a story.

Identify central idea and main idea

What are similarities and differences between the two?

What strategy do I want to use to find central/main idea?

How are theme, main idea, and central idea are developed in a text (hint: think of point of view)

What is the Central Idea?• 1. A penny for your thoughts? If it’s a 1943

copper penny, it could be worth as much as fifty thousand dollars. In 1943, most pennies were made out of steel since copper was needed for World War II, so the 1943 copper penny is ultra-rare. Another rarity is the 1955 double die penny. These pennies were mistakenly double stamped, so they have overlapping dates and letters. If it’s uncirculated, it’d easily fetch $25,000 at an auction. Now that’s a pretty penny.

What is the Central Idea?

• 2. Before you put on that Angry Birds costume and exhaust yourself roving from door to door pandering for candy, take a minute to reflect on the tradition in which you are taking part. Halloween is believed to have come from an ancient Celtic festival dating back some 2,000 years. November 1st was the Celtic New Year and marked the end of summer to the Celts, so they celebrated on its eve by wearing costumes made of animal skins and dancing around bon fires. Over the next two millennia, this primitive celebration grew to be candy fueled costume ball that we know today.

What is the Central Idea?• 3. When one hears the term “reality” applied to a

television show, one might expect that the events portrayed occurred naturally or, at the least, were not scripted, but this is not always the case. Many reality shows occur in unreal environments, like rented mansions occupied by film crews. Such living environments do not reflect what most people understand to be “reality.” Worse, there have been accusations that events not captured on film were later restaged by producers. Worse still, some involved in the production of “reality” television claim that the participants were urged to act out story lines premeditated by producers. With such accusations floating around, it’s no wonder many people take reality TV to be about as real as the sitcom.

What is the Central Idea?• 4. It is estimated that over twenty million

pounds of candy corn are sold in the US each year. Brach’s, the top manufacturer, sells enough candy corn to circle the earth 4.25 times if each piece were laid end to end. That’s a lot of candy corn, but that’s nothing compared to Tootsie Roll production. Over 64 million Tootsie Rolls are produced every day! But even Tootsie Rolls have got nothing on the candy industry’s staple product, chocolate. Confectioners manufacture over twenty billion pounds of chocolate in the United States each year. Now that’s a mouthful!

Answers

• http://www.ereadingworksheets.com/reading-worksheets/main-idea-answers.html

• http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/life-for-slave-children-in-1861/2011/05/17/AGqrq6UH_story.html

Author’s Choice

• Author’s choice is simply asking yourself after reading-Why did the author write that way?

• When dealing with author’s choice we must examine the structure and the point of view of the text.

Purpose and Text Structure

• Author’s Purpose is to entertain, persuade, or inform.

• There are 5 different text structures:• COMPARE AND CONTRAST• CAUSE AND EFFECT• PROBLEM AND SOLUTION• SEQUENCE • DESCRIPTION

Compare and Contrast

• This type of structure examines the similarities and differences between two or more people, events, concepts, ideas, etc.

• Example: A book about ancient Greece that explains how Spartan women were different from Athenian women.

Cause and Effect

• This structure presents the relationship between an specific event, idea, or concept and the events, ideas, or concepts that follow.

• Example: Weather patterns being described that explains why a big snowstorm occurred.

Problem Solution

• This type of structure sets up a problem or problems, explains the solution and then discusses the effects of the solution.

• Example: A text discussing the problem with modern Olympics becoming too big and expensive to operate.

Sequencing

• This text structure gives readers a chronological of events or a list of steps in a procedure.

• Example: Majority of the information in your Social Studies text book.

Description

• This type of text structure features a detailed description of something to give the reader a mental picture.

• Example: A book that tells all about whales or describe what the geography is like in a particular region.

Point of View

• The types of Point of View

– First Person– Second Person– Third Person- Limited and Omniscient

First and Second

• First Person- The main character is telling the story. The reader can only experience the story through that person’s eyes. The pronoun “I” is used often.

• Second Person- This is generally used through instructional writing. It is told from the perspective of “you”.

Third Person• Third Person Limited- The POV is limited to only

one character. This means that the narrator only knows what the main character knows, feels, and thinks.

• Third Person Omniscient- The POV the character is not limited to what one character knows, the narrator knows everything. The narrator may know things that others do not and make comments about what is happening and can see inside the minds of other characters.

HOMEWORK DUE FRIDAY

• YOUR ASSIGNMENT IS TO FIND AN EXAMPLE OF EACH STRUCTURE OF TEXT AND EACH POINT OF VIEW.