1. Critically reading Our Texts, Our Topics, and Our lives
Lesson 18: Tackling Complexity Nonfiction

2. Teaching point
Today I want to teach you that readers find the main idea by figuring out the perspective of the author and how they might be swaying you to think a certain way about that topic, even when the author's perspective isn’t explicit.

3. Perspective on animal defenses is clear but what about perspective on scientists?
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4. Lots of words make their work seem important—designed experiments, recorded.
Whole section in each chapter talks about their work
“She could hardly believe her results”—they do fascinating work
Only describes successful experiments
SCIENTISTS DO EXCITING WORK AND ARE OFTEN SUCCESSFUL
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5. Right now choose a text to work with
Find a spot in the text where you think you could do this work.
Now read a short section thinking, ‘How does my author want me to feel about this topic?’ Look for words, visuals or examples that help you understand what the author’s perspective might be.

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