1. Day 12
Main Idea- Community Service and You, Helping Verbs, and Close reading 2

2. Objectives:
Identify and understand the main idea present in a nonfiction text.
Chunk and Gist a nonfiction text
Dissect sentences for main and Helping verbs
Homework:
Close reading Week 2 due Friday
Grammar worksheets due Friday
Class readings due Friday

3. Agenda Warm Up Helping Verbs “Feeding Frenzy”
Pair Practice
“Feeding Frenzy”
“Community Service and You ”
“Leading Women”
Closure

4. Warm up- Copy the sentences and label all the parts we have discussed.
1. I can understand your concern. 2. Is Mrs.Jones going with you? 3. The rooms cannot be held any longer. 4. I haven't seen him for an hour.

5. Helping Verb Practice

6. Partner Practice – Verb Worksheet
Get into your pairs and sign onto classroom. Open the document. Each person needs to complete sections A-D. You will have 15 minutes to complete. Whatever you do not finish is homework.

7. FEEDING FRENZY
Close reading

10. Feeding Frenzy Get into you pairs download a copy of Feeding Frenzy
You must Chunk and Gist the reading for main idea and answer the questions on the back.
Compose a main idea statement at the end.
Remember, a main idea is not:
A Title
A Summary
About the Characters

19. Community Service and You
Close reading

22. Community Service and You
Get into you pairs download a copy of Community Service and You.
You must Chunk and Gist the reading for main idea and answer the questions on the back.
Compose a main idea statement at the end.
Remember, a main idea is not:
A Title
A Summary
About the Characters

23. “Leading Women”
Close Reading:

24. Turn to “Leading Women” in your close reading passage packet
You will have 10 minutes to read, annotate, and answer the questions for this selection.
Work on your own for this assignment.
When you are finished record your answers and rationales on the Answer sheet.
If you need to look at the annotation requirements, you can download them from my website.

25. Closure: 3, 2, 1
Write 3 examples of Helping verbs used in everyday conversation. Compose two main idea statements for “Community Service and You” What is one question you still have regarding the finding of the main idea of a work?