South Dakota ELA 11-12.RH.2

11-12.RH.2 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• 11-12.RH.2.a

  Evaluate how ideas develop over the course of a text.

• 11-12.RH.2.b

  Summarize the key supporting details and ideas.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students find the main idea in a historical source and track how it develops from beginning to end. They summarize the idea and the details that support it, whether the source is a speech, letter, textbook, or article.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

A student can explain how the Gettysburg Address moves from the nation’s founding to a call for action. They can summarize Lincoln’s point in their own words and choose details that support it.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may treat the first sentence as the main idea without checking the rest of the text. They may list events in order instead of explaining how the writer’s idea develops. Some copy striking phrases rather than summarize them.

04

How to Assess It

Exit ticket: Read the Gettysburg Address. Name its central idea, explain how the opening leads to the closing, and summarize two supporting details in your own words.

1. 01

   Cut the Gettysburg Address into three sections; have pairs arrange them and label what each section adds to Lincoln’s idea.

2. 02

   Ask students to write: How does Lincoln move from describing the past to asking his audience to act? Use two details.

3. 03

   Give pairs three short summaries of the speech; have them pick the most accurate one and cross out an unsupported detail in another.

4. 04

   Use a local museum webpage about a historic place; have students write a two-sentence visitor summary with two supporting details.

• 9-10.RH.2

  Determine the central ideas of primary or secondary sources.

• 11-12.RST.2

  Determine the central ideas of a text.

• 9-10.RST.2

  Determine the central ideas of a text.