Create a map for each of the ten statements that will effectively show the relationship between main ideas and major details.

 

1.       Impressionism was a school of painting that emphasized the capturing on canvas of a fleeting moment.  The most famous impressionists were Manet, Monet, and Degas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.       There are just a few pure substances in nature.  Gold, diamonds, sulfur are found in pure form.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3.       There are three basic stages in the development of English language:  Old English (400-1100), Middle English (1100-1500), Modern English (1500-present).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4.       There are many kinds of coal.  Lignites are least pure and most immature.  Bituminous is a medium quality coal, and anthracite is the most compact and the purest form of coal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.       F. Scott Fitzgerald is especially known for two novels:  The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night.  In The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald develops the characters of a fated idealist Jay Gatsby, and in Tender is the Night Fitzgerald traces the mental deterioration of a character

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

6.       In 1672 Isaac Newton made some interesting discoveries regarding light.  He showed that white light does not have just one wave length and that white light breaks down through a prism into all the colors of the rainbow.

 

 

 

 

 

 

7.       Here are three important rules of algebra:  (1) the commutative law of addition (a+b=b+a), (2) the associative law of addition [a+(b+c)=(a+b)+c], and (3) the commutative law of multiplication (ab=ba).

 

 

 

 

 

 

8.       One of the similarities between whales and chimpanzees is that they both breastfeed their young.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9.       Algebra, geometry, and trigonometry are specific topics covered in the more general study of mathematics.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.    There are several causes of inflation.  The three most comonly mentioned are: (1) a large federal deficit, (2) high interest rates, and (3) an annual increase in salaries.