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SUP – Supporting Details. SUP 401, and 402. SUP 401: Locate important details in uncomplicated passages. Sup 402: Make simple inferences about how details are used in passages. Question Stems. SUP 401: The passage indicates that…
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SUP 401, and 402 • SUP 401: Locate important details in uncomplicated passages. • Sup 402: Make simple inferences about how details are used in passages.
Question Stems • SUP 401: • The passage indicates that… • What do the details in the passage tell us about the topic? • SUP 402: • The author included the ____paragraph (lines__-__) primarily to: • Why did the author use this paragraph? What purpose does this paragraph serve? • The narrator’s comment, “_____” (line_), is primarily an example of: • What is the narrator’s comment an example of?
Deep Details vs. Distracting details • Deep Details: important information. • The passage WOULD NOT be the same without these details. (written in red) • Distracting Details: Unimportant information. • The passage WOULD be the same without these details. (written in Green)
Example: When Ernest Gaines was fifteen, he moved to Vallejo, California, to join his mother and stepfather, who had left Louisiana during World War II. His first novel was written at age 17, while babysitting his youngest brother, Michael. According to one account, he wrapped it in brown paper, tied it with string, and sent it to a New York publisher, who rejected it. Gaines burned the manuscript, but later rewrote it to become his first published novel, Catherine Carmier
Without Deep Details • When Ernest Gaines was fifteen, he moved to Vallejo, California, to join his mother and stepfather, who had left Louisiana during World War II. While babysitting his youngest brother, Michael. According to one account, he wrapped it in brown paper, tied it with string, andsent it to a. Gaines burned the manuscript, but later rewrote it to.. • Is the passage affected? How?
Without distracting details When Ernest Gaines was fifteen, he moved to California, to join his mother and stepfather, who had left Louisiana during World War II. His first novel was written at age 17. According to one account, he sent it to a New York publisher, who rejected it. Gaines burned the manuscript, but later rewrote it to become his first published novel, Catherine Carmier. • Is the passage affected? How?