Highlight details that point to a central idea. My first impressions of the New World will always remain etched in my memory, particularly that hazy October morning when I first saw Ellis Island. The steamer Florida, fourteen days out of Naples, filled to capacity with 1600 natives of Italy, had weathered one of the worst storms in our captain's memory; and glad we were, both children and grown-ups, to leave the open sea and come at last through the Narrows into the Bay. —Edward Corsi, Italian immigrant from Immigrant Kids, Russell Freedman Which central idea is supported by the details you chose? The weather was poor that morning. The immigrants were happy to arrive. The steamer was overcrowded. The memory was unforgettable.