Thesis Statements and Evidence

What is a Thesis Statement?

• The answer to the prompt

• Controlling/Main idea of an informational text

• Promise to the reader what you will focus on

• All of the above

What is "supporting evidence"?

What are types of supporting evidence?

• A. Facts

• B. A quote from an expert (on the subject)

• A & B

• None. Supporting evidence can only be direct quotes from the text

Step one of creating a thesis statement is to...

True or False: The purpose of an Informational Articles is to inform readers about real events?

• True

• False

I believe the Zombie Apocalypse will happen

• No way

• It will happen

What is textual evidence?

• Words from a source

• Explicit (you can directly point to the answer)

• Implicit (you must make an inference by using background knowledge and evidence)

• The main idea of a source

Another word for "genre" is ​ (a)  

• category/type
• playlist
• English
• homework

Which of the following is NOT an example of a genre?

• Novel

• Video

• Pencil

• Article

Match the following

• The person who wrote the source

• Author

• "around textual evidence"

• Citation

• Type of source (article, video, story...

• Title

• (Source 1)

• Genre

• Name of source

• Quotation Marks