How do you find the key points of an article when they aren't stated?

Question

I'm going into highschool this year and i'm taking AP World History, so my teacher gave us summer work. THere's 10 articles and 9/10 of them have the key point stated above each new topic, but the first article has nothing except text, so I don't know what to do to find the key point for this one article.

Answer 1

Sounds like your teacher wants to see what you come up with. It can be a challenge, for sure! So look at it this way: you have 9 examples where you can read the article and see the key point. So those should give you good practice figuring out how you can identify the key point from the article itself. So if the key point in one article is, say, "religious schisms led to many of the wars of the Late Middle Ages," look for how you see that idea track through the rest of the article. And after you do that for all 9, you can read the 10th one and go the other way: what are the points and ideas of each paragraph in the article? What links them together? If your friend called you and said, "what was that last article even about?" and you only had 30 seconds to tell them, what would you say?

Let me know if this helps!