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Notes Your specific feelings could include:

precautions To survive at Camp Green Lake the campers in Tent D must
takee several precautions.
advantages There are several advantages to being the leader of Camp D.
reasons for Clyde Livingston was Stanley’s hero for a number of reasons.

the causes of or the Bad luck followed Elya Yelnuts everywhere as a result of
effects of breaking his promise to Madame Zeroni.

the steps for By following these simple directions you can make nail polish
from rattlesnake venom.
the way to or the Stanley learned to avoid being caught on the Warden’s
method cameras by following these steps.
parts, kinds, or types The Texas desert contains many types of dangerous creatures.
qualities of The campers in Tent D appeared to be ready to fight for the
smallest of reasons.
difficulties of or To understand Zigzag’s weird behavior you must be aware of
obstacles to several problems he had faced before coming to Camp Green Lake.

Read the paragraph below
Palindromes are words, numbers, and phrases that can be read the same backwards and
forwards. Names such as Bob, Eve, and Anna are palindromes because they can be reversed
to spell the same word. In the book Holes everyone in the Yelnats family named their first son
Stanley because it was a palindrome for Yelnats. “Madam, I’m Adam.”, “Marge lets Norah see
Sharon’s telegram.”, and “Lee had a heel.” are examples of phrase palindromes. One example
of a number palindrome is at 8:02 on the 20th of February 2002 it was 20:02 02/20 2002. Can
you come up with a palindrome of your own?
• What is the main idea of this paragraph?
• Can you find a sentence that tells you the main idea? This sentence is called the topic
sentence. The topic sentence usually comes at the beginning of a paragraph, however,
some writers may place the topic sentence at the end.
• The portion of the topic sentence that says that can be read the same backwards and
forwards specifies the writer’s feelings by which of the items listed above?

Practice 1

Below you will see pairs of sentences. Each pair contains one sentence that would make a
good topic sentence and another sentence that would make a good detail sentence. Write T before
the sentence in each pair that would make a good topic sentence. Write D before each sentence
that would make a good detail sentence.

1. __________ Texas has 267,000 square miles.
2. __________ Texas is so big that you can find many things to
do.

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