how does the author develop the central idea over the course of the text

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How do authors develop central ideas?

How do authors develop central ideas? Where does the author's evidence come from? From another text, quotes, and numbers and stats. When the author quotes an expert or witness to prove his point further.

How does the poem's structure reveal conflicts between the speaker's ideals?

How does the poem's structure reveal conflicts between the ideals of the speaker and those of the City Planners? A the speaker's complaints in the opening stanzas transition to the adverse description of the City Planners in the last stanzas.

Where does the author’s evidence come from?

Where does the author's evidence come from? From another text, quotes, and numbers and stats. When the author quotes an expert or witness to prove his point further. Nice work!

When does the author use tone to show emphasis?

When the author uses a certain tone to show emphasis on a certain part of the text to further show how he feels on a certain subject.

Annual Target

By (date), given a grade level informational text, (name) will (orally or in writing) analyze the development of the central idea by stating a...central idea from the text, citing (3) supporting details, and explaining how those details develop the central idea, on (3 out of 4) text analyses.

Quarterly Objectives

By (date), given a grade level informational text and a graphic organizer with sample sentences, after the teacher models how to determine the text structure (e.g., cause-effect, problem-solution) using an anchor chart, (name)...will (orally or in writing) identify the central idea from a list of choices, cite (3) supporting details, and explain how those details develop the central idea, on (3 out of 4) text analyses..