9.5. SEETH Application Practice R5.

Objective: Today, we're practice the SEETH idea. That's the idea that you can analyze an informational paragraph to determine what role each of the sentences play in it. "SEETH" is an acronym that stands for "Statement-Explanation-Examples-Transition-Hook," like our "SEE" body paragraph slightly expanded.

Do Now:
We need a reading to conduct this on, so here's one that relates to our current theme, because two groups of people have two different sets of values, which causes them some problems in this situation.

This is the reading, open it up first:
"Wolves Are Returning to Oregon, But Not Everyone Is Pleased" from Smithsonian.com

Read the entire article first, and write a WHO+WHAT+WHY central idea sentence in a new document in your Google Drive.

Review You May Need to Do Your Work:
To review -
     There are five kinds of sentences you'll see in nonfiction writing (article and essays) - statements of new main ideas, explanations of that main idea, examples of that main idea, transitions to the next main idea, and hooks (at the very beginning and end). If you know what the author is trying to do with each sentence, you can understand the paragraph and answer questions about it far more easily.


Independent Practice (What I am Going to Grade to See if You Are Novice, Proficient, or Expert at this Skill):

Take the first ten sentences, copy and paste them into the same document you already have made, and label them with a SEETH letter and a short explanation.

Demonstration to Guide Your Work:

For example, (the blue type is my identification and rationale)

Even before the first modern-times wolf moved permanently into Oregon, officials foresaw the potential for the species’ return and the problems the wolves might cause. This is a transition sentence. And so the Oregon Wolf Conservation and Management Plan was enacted in 2005 by the state of Oregon with the intention of readying the state and its people for the presence once again of the gray wolf. This is a main idea; it mentions this management plan for the first time and the rest of the paragraph is about it. The wolf plan outlines just how to respond to wolves that prey upon livestock and at what point Oregon wolves might be removed from the state’s endangered species list as their numbers grow, among other issues of question. This explains how the plan works. Ranchers, hunters, hikers, conservationists, government land managers and other stakeholders took part in developing the wolf plan, Dennehy said. This explains how the plan was made.