Lecture+Notes

=Lecture Notes - Language Arts=

This is the hub for language arts notes and models. The daily scribe records the day's notes for all students to review and use. Anyone can update, edit, add links, or other information to these lecture notes.

**Main Idea** -- Hear and see Mr. Cook's thought process when determining the main idea of a passage or portion of text.
 * Identify the subject/topic (one or two words)
 * How to find this topic? (1) Look at the title, (2) repeated words, (3) look at the first sentence
 * Find details that relatesd to the subject
 * Develop a MAIN IDEA statement

**Tone** -- Hear and see Mr. Cook's thought process when determining the tone of a passage or portion of text.

1-Identify the subject/topic 2-track clues (the words and phrases) about the topic/subject 3-Determine the author’s attitude about the subject of this passage using those words and phrases
 * __Process Chart/Scaffolding:__** (adapted from MDK12.org)