Analyzing Words
The careful study of something by looking at its separate parts.
What is Analysis?
An important person mentioned in a text or historical event.
What is a Key Individual?
Specific cases used by authors to show or prove a point.
What are Examples?
Looking at two or more things to see how they are alike and how they are different.
What are Comparisons?
The key individuals who are the main subject of the Library of Congress excerpt.
Who are Wilbur and Orville Wright?
Links or relationships between people, ideas, or events in a text.
What are Connections?
An important occurrence that changes the story or situation.
What is a Key Event?
Short, interesting, or funny personal stories used to make a point.
What are Anecdotes?
Comparing two totally different things to explain a tricky idea (e.g., "Your brain is like a computer").
What are Analogies?
The specific gift from their father in 1878 that first sparked the brothers' interest in flight.
What is a toy helicopter?
Differences that set things apart from each other.
What are Distinctions?
The main point or central message of an informational text.
What is a Key Idea?
Making an idea clear by using examples, pictures, or descriptions.
What is Illustrating?
Groups or collections of things sorted together because they share similar features (e.g., Graphic Novels, Mystery, History).
What are Categories?
The historic event that occurred at Kitty Hawk in September 1903.
What is the first manned, powered, and controlled flight?
Handouts that outline lecture content with blanks for key concepts for students to fill in.
What are Guided Notes?
The reason why authors use the word "KEY" instead of just saying "MAIN".
What is because it unlocks understanding, leads to broader realizations, and isn't "one size fits all"?
Explaining an idea in greater detail with extra information.
What is Elaborating?
How one event (the cause) makes another event happen (the effect).
What is Cause and Effect?
The connection between the toy helicopter and the aviation breakthrough of 1903.
What is the toy peaked their interest, leading them to create and test a flying machine?
According to class note instructions, this is the exact color text students are required to write down. (For Ms. Stanfield Yesterday!)
What is Blue Text?
Two key individuals linked in historical informational texts regarding civil rights. (From yesterday with Ms. Stanfield)
Who are Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks?
A mistake in someone's reasoning that makes their argument false or weak.
What is Flawed Logic?
The reason authors don't waste time stating every single connection explicitly in text.
What is because they know readers are strong enough to figure out connections on their own?
The key individual connected to the invention discussed in "The First Telephone Call".
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?