1. As of August 29th:
We deconstructed standards 1.1 and RL1.2 If you do not have those standards in your binder, please get one from the back of the room under the CBC.
Read the text in HMH titled “Bonne Annee” page 31 (copies are in the back of the room)
CN on Central Idea Formula
Vocabulary Weeks 1 and 2
Determine the central idea of the Bonne Annee text by using the central idea formula
Template for two column notes (this will change depending on the assignment, text, or prompt)
Utilize the writing process: Pre-write by using two column notes as organization showing the evidence and details you will use to support your response
Constructed Response answering this prompt: “In the text, Bonne Annee, does the author consider his homeland where he was born or where he was raised?”

2. 8 RI/RL 1.2 Central Idea and Supporting Details
Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text.

3. Central Idea
the most important, controlling idea that the writer is communicating to the reader.
It’s the heart of the text or a paragraph.
All of the other supporting details in the text or within a paragraph should tell more about the central idea.

4. Supporting Details
Supporting details prove the value of the central idea.
You MUST be able to determine the central idea and how the supporting details relate.

5. Explicit and Implicit Central Idea…
Sometimes, a paragraph has a stated central idea. This means the paragraph “says” what the central (main) idea is.
Sometimes, a paragraph doesn’t have a stated central idea, but has an “implied” central idea. This means that you need to state the central idea in your own words because it doesn’t actually “say” it in the paragraph.
Explicit
Implicit

6. An implied main idea is only suggested; it is not clearly stated in one sentence.
• To figure out an implied main idea, we must look at the supporting details.
IMPLIED CENTRAL IDEA

7. To find the implied CENTRAL idea, ask these questions:
Who or what is the paragraph about? (topic)
What is the key idea the author is trying to make about the topic?
What details support the key idea, author’s purpose, or POV?

8. Too much information…
All of the sentences in a paragraph should support the main idea of that paragraph.
Information that does not support the main idea, does not belong in the same paragraph.

9. AVID Central Idea Formula
Topic (who or what)
+ What is said about the topic (supporting details)
+ purpose or POV (why did the author write this)
= main idea statement (one complete statement including all three parts and at least one comma)
When writing your own central idea statement, use this formula.