Main Idea and More

Introduction

You are to complete this webquest by the end of the period.

Please be sure to write your answers down on a sheet of notebook paper and turn in to Ms. Nolan when complete. (DO NOT FORGET YOUR NAME...put your name on it now! No names will be thrown away!)

If you finish early, please go to the links provided with language arts games and activities.

Process

Go to the following website and watch the video.................. http://www.brainpop.com/english/writing/mainidea/

Click on and open the page with main idea questions................ http://www.ereadingworksheets.com/reading-worksheets/main-idea-3.pdf

...if the link doesn't work, try this one................http://www.ereadingworksheets.com/reading-worksheets/main-idea-3.htm

Scholastic Article on sneaking food into the movies..........

http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/magazines/scope/pdfs/SCOPE-051412-DebateEssayKit.pdf

Read the article carefully. Complete the chart with evidence from the article as well as your own ideas, and then create a thesis statement based on the question "Is it okay to sneak food into the movies?"

Then, click on the following link....

http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/magazines/scope/pdfs/SCOPE-REPRO-051412-20.pdf

and complete the "Write a Persuasive Essay" page by completing all of the steps. Take your time and read the entire page before beginning. You may complete this on google docs or on paper.

Finished so soon? You may click on the following links below to play a few practice games.

Play and try to defeat the supporting details game............ http://www.quia.com/rr/41486.html

Make sure that you attempt to fling the
teacher!...................https://laulima.hawaii.edu/access/content/user/vvenzon/Main%20Idea%20Fling%20Da%20Teacher.swf

Evaluation

Congratulations, you have successfully made it through the WebQuest. The ultimate goal of taking you through this WebQuest was to get you to practice the concepts of main ideas, supporting details, inferences, and context clues.

I hope that you have enjoyed and learned a lot from this WebQuest. Lastly, I leave you with some words of wisdom regarding WebQuests. WebQuests get you to process new information in a more meaningful way as compared to simply doing worksheets in a classroom. WebQuests require you to use your higher-level thinking skills and this is what makes learning from a WebQuest stick in your mind.

The Evaluation

The last and final step for this WebQuest is the evaluation. For this part, you will need to reflect on and make observations of your learning while going through this WebQuest. That being said, here are some questions that I would like you to consider. Please be prepared to discuss these questions in class.

What are some good/bad things about the WebQuest you just went through?
What are your feelings about this WebQuest? (for example: I really liked this WebQuest because... OR I didn't really like this thing called a WebQuest because...)
How might students learn more/better using WebQuests?
On a scale of 1-10 (1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest), what would you give this WebQuest?
Could you see yourself using WebQuests in the future? Why?
Share any comments that you would like about this WebQuest, or WebQuests in general.

Self-Evaluation Rubric

Use this Self-Evaluation Rubric to honestly assess you own learning after going through this WebQuest.

3	I fully understand what a main idea is. I fully understand what a supporting detail is. I was able to easily create a paragraph that had a main idea and supporting details.

2	I only partially understand what a main idea is. I only partially understand what a supporting detail is. It was a little difficult for me to create a paragraph that had a main idea and supporting details.

1	I kind of understand what a main idea is, and I don't understand what a supporting detail is. I don't understand what a main idea is, and I kind of understand what a supporting detail is. Writing the main idea and supporting details paragraph was very difficult for me, but I still did it.

0	I don't understand what a main idea is. I don't understand what a supporting detail is. I was not able to do the paragraph.

Conclusion

We will try to clean up around 4 minutes before it is time to leave. Please be sure you put all computers away neatly and correctly.

Credits

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