All About Central Idea
The definition of a Central Idea
What is the main point of the text, story, or paragraph?
Every Central Idea should have this to back it up.
What are supporting details or evidence?
A person who has escaped from a place.
What is a Fugitive?
When is Ms. S's birthday?
What is September 9th!
To speak aloud.
What is Utter?
The Central Idea of the American Day Address.
What is Americans should embody the spirit of liberty?
Think back to the text "What slaves are Taught to Think of the north" in your own words what was one piece of evidence mentioned that could support the central idea.
What is the story about the narrator's friend? What is the way the south treated Yankees?
The academic definition of Explicit.
What is information that is directly stated in the text?
Gina and Peter are watching a movie with robots in it when Gina's phone rings. Peter starts to get mad and tells her to turn her stupid phone off. When they return their attention to the screen there are no more robots, just what appear to be cars and trucks. Infer what movie is being watched.
What is Transformers?
The definition of Inference.
What is an educated guess based on implied information?
The Central Idea of "What Slaves are Taught to Think of the North"
What is slaveholders lie to slaves in the South about the North to make sure they won't try to leave.
What is the supporting detail of the following passage: Kangaroos protect themselves in many ways. If a kangaroo senses danger, they will bang their tail on the ground to warn the others. A newborn joey is only the size of your thumb.
What is if a kangaroo senses danger, they will bang their tail on the ground to warn the others?
The definition of Exert.
What is to make a physical or mental effort?
Tips to find the Central Idea.
What is scanning the first and last sentence? What is listing the topics of each paragraph? What is reviewing the title?
Southern gentlemen indulge in the most contemptuous expressions about Yankees. Define Indulge.
What is to be involved in? What is to allow yourself to have or do something as a special reward/pleasure?
Provide the central idea of the following paragraph. Maria is watching too much television. A toddler shouldn’t be spending copious amounts of hours staring blankly at a screen. Worse yet, some of her wild behavior has been inspired by those awful cartoons she watches. We need to spend more time reading books with her and pull the plug on the TV! A baby needs more attention than just keeping them occupied and quiet.
What is Watching too much TV is not good for Maria or for toddlers?
Pick out one of the supporting details of the passage below:
My American roommate was shocked by me. She asked where I had learned to speak English so well and was confused when I said that Nigeria happened to have English as its official language. She asked if she could listen to what she called my “tribal music,” and was consequently very disappointed when I produced my tape of Mariah Carey. My roommate had a single story of Africa: a single story of catastrophe.
What is she asked where I learned to speak English so well? She asked if she could listen to my tribal music?
When they visit the north and return home they tell their slaves of the runaways they have seen and describe them to be in the most Deplorable condition. Define Deplorable.
What is shockingly bad in quality?
The meaning of tone.
What is the way the author feels about the topic/subject?
The act of obeying.
What is Subservience?
What does the acronym TAG stand for?
What is Title, Author, Genre?
Pick out the supporting details in the passage below:
Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person. The Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti writes that if you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story and to start with, “secondly.” Start the story with the arrows of the Native Americans, and not with the arrival of the British, and you have an entirely different story. Start the story with the failure of the African state, and not with the colonial creation of the African state, and you have an entirely different story.
What is start the story with the arrows of the Native Americans, and not with the arrival of the British? And Start the story with the failure of the African state, and not with the colonial creation of the African state?
To subdue or putdown; to keep from public knowledge.
What is Suppress?
Explain in your own words what it means to develop a central idea over the course of the text.
What is provide supporting details or talk about closely related topics that back up the central idea?
To absorb certain ideas or knowledge.
What is Imbibe?