1. When the bell rings you should be writing silently in your journal. Do you think it is cruel to hunt a living creature for sport?

2. Remember:  Materials:  Make sure to always have your notebook.  Make sure to always have something to write with. Make-up  Course outline received  Pretest  Notes on: foreshadowing, imagery, characters, and plot pyramid. Perseus and review questions, or inference questions  Notes on: genres, points of view, and mood and tone. Study Island fiction test.  IRP day: first reading log, first note card -Grades are on MMS -Nonfiction begins TODAY -Study Island on THURSDAY -IRP day/journals on FRIDAY

3. Welcome to Nonfiction! -First thing’s first: nonfiction OR non- fiction? What do YOU think? -What exactly do we mean by nonfiction? -Write down “nonfiction” in your binder. Look up the definition.

4. Genres of nonfiction (just a few) Nonfiction Biographies Autobiographies Letters Essays Reports We are going to keep this genre list current, so please make sure you have it written down in your binder.

5. -Read the article together as a class. -Does this fall under any of our given genres of nonfiction? If not, what must we add to our list? -Give the article a title. Your title must have THREE words in it.

6. Main Idea What in the world is a main idea? Write it down in your binder. Take your guess. I will give you the correct definition. Is it found in fiction? What would we call it? It sounds easy enough, but many students have difficulty identifying the main idea of a passage. Before stomping through a passage and randomly shouting a main idea to the wind, ask yourself these questions:

7. This article seems to mostly be about… The most important point in this article is… The central idea (point the author keeps coming back to) of this article is…

8. What do Main Ideas need in order to grow up big and strong?

9. Supporting Details!  Write down “Supporting Details” in your binder. Take your guess. I will give you the definition.  Remember these? We will simply know them as: “The 5Ws + H”  The 5Ws + H are your guides to the Main Idea. Each one is a supporting detail of some sort!

10. Information Passage Main Idea Diagram First Paragraph Main Idea Supporting Information Second Paragraph Main Idea Supporting Information Third Paragraph Main Idea Supporting Information Fourth Paragraph Main Idea Supporting Information MAIN IDEA OF PASSAGE How can each paragraph have its own Main Idea?

11. Warm-up -Take a quick glance at pages 3-5. Make a mental note of which article you would like to read as a warm-up for our activity today. -In the FRONT of your notebook, write down the title of the article you chose. Next, read your article fully and write down the COMPLETE main idea. -Finally, choose TWO of the “5Ws+H” and write down the COMPLETE supporting detail sentences you find them in.

12. -Turn to page __. We will read this article as a class and silently. -We will practice finding main idea and supporting details in this article. Write down the article title in the FRONT of your notebook underneath your warm-up article. -Next, draw the web diagram we made in the back of your notebook earlier in class. -You will fill in your diagram.

13. Topic Sentence  The sentence (USUALLY at the very beginning of a paragraph) that STATES or IMPLIES the MAIN IDEA of that paragraph.  Not every paragraph will have a topic sentence; don’t freak out if you can’t find one for every single paragraph!  Topic sentences are common in nonfiction but rare in fiction.

14. Topic Sentence  Let’s practice with topic sentences in a different article.  Turn to the article “Rethinking the Yearbook” in your magazine.  We will read this article as a class and silently on your own.  When we finish, go back and write down each topic sentence you find in the front of your notebook. Leave THREE blank lines underneath each topic sentence.

15. Topic Sentence

16. Draw boxes around each topic sentence…

17. Topic Sentence Ta-da! Instant informational diagram!