Compare Important Ideas

“Return to Titanic,” “The Forgotten Treasure,” and “Mysteries of the Ancient Past” tell about people who discover things. Compare the ideas in the texts.

How It Works

Collect and Organize Ideas To compare ideas across several texts, organize them in a chart. List two or three questions to get the big ideas.

Practice Together

Study and Summarize the Ideas Compare the answers for each question. Then summarize. To write your summary, turn the question into a statement. Look for ways in which the ideas are alike, and explain the connection. Here is a summary of the ideas for question 1.

Try It!

Make a chart to collect answers to question 2. Summarize them. You may want to use this frame to help you express your comparison.

“Return to Titanic,” “The Forgotten Treasure,” and “Mysteries of the Ancient Past” all show why people keep trying to make discoveries. In “Return to Titanic,” people want __________. In “The Forgotten Treasure,” people want __________, and in “Mysteries of the Ancient Past,” they want __________.