Drag each passage to the correct category. Identify each passage as having either a directly stated main idea or an Implied main idea.
A recent report revealed that about
70 percent of American silent films
are lost. With the arrival of talking
films in the 1920s, silent films
became unprofitable. So
film studios
threw away most of them. Some films
were saved, but many of them were
later lost in fires caused by the nitrate
in film reels. Several other films were
destroyed when they were recycled for
their metal content.
The planet Jupiter is almost entirely
made of gas and liquid. Although it is
more than 1,000 times larger than
Earth, there is barely any solid surface
to stand on. Jupiter's atmosphere is
made up of hydrogen and helium. It
does not have much water. Plus, huge,
violent storms move across the planet.
Implied Main Idea
Directly Stated Main Idea
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Read the excerpt from cristina garcia’s dreaming in cuban.i don’t really want to talk about my father but i end up telling minnie how he used to take me horseback riding on our ranch, strapping me in his saddle with a leather seat belt he designed just for me. dad’s family owned casinos in cuba, and had one of the largest ranches on the island. there were beef cattle and dairy cows, horses, pigs, goats, and lambs. dad fed them molasses to fatten them, and gave the chickens corn and sorghum until they laid vermilion eggs, rich with vitamins. he took me on an overnight inspection once. we camped out under a sapodilla tree and listened to the pygmy owls with their old women’s voices. my father knew i understood more than i could say. he told me stories about cuba after columbus came. he said that the spaniards wiped out more indians with smallpox than with muskets.how does the structure of the excerpt add meaning to the passage? it includes historical information about the spaniards and indians to indicate the work is nonfiction.it describes the setting of the ranch owned by pilar’s cuban grandparents to explain family values.it uses several narrators to share their points of view about past and present life in cuba.it manipulates the chronological order of events to reveal the close relationship between pilar and her father.