2. What amazing product did
Claude C. Hopkins Invent?
a. Sony Televisions
b. Pepsodent Toothpaste
c. Dell Computers
d. The iPhone
3. Agenda
• Topic & Main Idea Quiz
• Supporting Details & Implied Main Idea using Habit, Ch. 3
• CONNECT Lab – Contract #1 due today at end of class
4. Topic & Main Idea Quiz
• Please clear your desk for the quiz.
• No talking during the quiz
• Upon completion, please place it on the
front counter, and then continue reading
The Power of Habit. We will be working in
Chapter 3: “The Golden Rule of Habit
Change”
5. Supporting Details
• On Tuesday, we discussed Supporting Details.
• To review:
• Supporting details are the evidence—such as
reasons, examples, facts, and steps—that backs up main ideas.
These details help you understand main ideas.
• There are two levels of supporting details:
• Main items of support are called major details.
Pay special attention to them.
• Major details themselves are sometimes supported with
information called minor details.
6. Supporting Details
• Let’s look at one of the paragraphs in Ch. 3 of Habit – page 61
the third paragraph “Tony Dungy…”
• What is the main idea of this paragraph?
• “Tony Dungy had waited an eternity for this job.”
• What is the first major supporting detail?
• “For seventeen years…
• What is the second major supporting detail?
• “Four times in the past…”
• Both of these sentences support the main idea which
discusses Dungy’s long wait for this job.
7. Supporting Details
• In the paragraph starting out “Part of the problem…” what is
the topic of the paragraph?
• How many times do you see this word (or a form of it?)
• Remember, the topic will be seen usually more than once in a
paragraph.
• Which part of the habit loop did Dungy want to change in the
players?
• Routine
8. Supporting Details
• Paragraph 3 on page 62 starts out with the main idea: “His
coaching strategy embodied an axiom, a Golden Rule of Habit
Change that study after study has shown is among the most
powerful tools for creating change.”
• Read the remainder of the page and create three supporting
details for the above main idea.
11. Implied Main Idea
• By now we have a good understanding of what the stated
main idea is, right?
• “What is the author’s one most important point about the topic.”
• Well, sometimes the author does not provide a main idea.
Instead, the reader has to figure this out on his/her own.
• The author’s key point is in the paragraph, but you will need
to carefully read it in order to understated what the author is
implying.
• What does imply mean?
• To hint or suggest something instead of saying it outright.
12. Implied Main Idea
• The only difference between a stated main idea and an
implied main idea is who puts the main idea into words: the
author or the reader.
• If the author puts in a stated main idea, you, the reader only
need to locate it.
• When the author implies the main idea, you, the reader, must
come up with a single sentence that tells the author’s main
point.
• Let’s practice again with Habit, Ch. 3
13. Implied Main Idea
• Let’s read page 64 of Habit the last paragraph, “This time,
however, as the Bucs line up…” What is the implied main idea
of this paragraph?
• Regan Upshaw does something different in this play, he focuses
on the cue that Dungy taught him.
• Now let’s look at the last paragraph on page 65. In this
paragraph there is a stated main idea, what is it?
• And as a result… (last sentence)
14. Implied Main Idea
• What is the implied main idea of paragraph 2 on page 67?
• Bill Wilson has become an alcoholic.
• Paragraph 1 on page 68?
• Paragraph 3 has a implied main idea, what is it?
• AA is a program that does not rely on a prescribed schedule,
psychiatry or research on addition, instead, it relies on spirituality.
