Read each paragraph and identify each of the sentences listed as a main idea, major supporting detail, or minor supporting detail. Choose the letter of the correct answer.
(1) Forming a stereotype, a belief that associates a whole group of people with certain traits, requires
performing two related processes. (2) The first process is categorization, or sorting people into groups. (3) A specific gender, race, age, occupation, political party, or another common attribute1 may be the basis for each group. (4) The second process involves perceiving the groups to which we belong as being different from the groups to which we don’t belong and then assuming that everyone in the other groups is alike. (5) For example, people who don’t live in New York City talk about the typical New Yorker, liberals lump together all conservatives, and teenagers think that all old people are the same.
1. Sentence 1 is a
a. main idea.
b. major supporting detail.
c. minor supporting detail.
2. Sentence 2 is a
a. main idea.
b. major supporting detail.
c. minor supporting detail.
3. Sentence 5 is a
a. main idea.
b. major supporting detail.
c. minor supporting detail.
1. a
2. b
3. c
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2. What day of the week is New Year’s Eve? _____________________
3. What day of the week is the day after November 24? _____________________
4. What day of the week is the day before December 14? _____________________
5. Why are some of the days in bold? _______________
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purpose? a) to entertain b) to inform c) to persuade
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Who will "by slow prudence to make mild/a rugged people"?
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).