Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Chapters 2-3

April 23, 2020 

Standard

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2

Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.

Objective

I can determine two or more themes or central ideas through inferences and provide objective summaries.

Video

Here is a short video I made that includes information for our class.

How to Find the Main Idea 

Vocabulary

Word: Main Idea 

Part of Speech:  noun

Dictionary Definition: the most important concept of what the paragraph or story is about 

Your Definition: 

Activity: Watch the McGraw-Hill video on How to Find More than One Main Idea in a Passage.

Activity

1.  Resources on Topic and Main Idea

Use the ThoughtCo. link to review how to identify topics, summarize passages, and identify main ideas.  Take notes when necessary.

How to Find the Main Idea.

2.  The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde from the Project Gutenberg

Use the link above to access the reading material for the next few weeks.

Your task is read to read chapters two and three.

Search for Mr. Hyde

Dr Jekyll Was Quite at Ease

Once you have completed the reading, test you knowledge of our skills by answering the discussion questions in the Google Form. 

Chapter Two and Three Discussion Form

For Fun:

WordArt (optional)

Use the link above to generate a word cloud of 10 different topic words that describe chapters 2 and 3.

You can copy and paste the image into the body of an email to share with me. 

We will discuss these ideas during office hours today.