Homework: Continue working so hard on IXL! I see a lot of Excellence and Golds for next week!
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Period 2: Acts of Kindness Project - due Tuesday
Period 3 and 4 - print out your article about Kindness or Caring. Annotate and begin answering questions.
Watch these videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGWO1ldEhtQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52WPJvb8roo
What Is Summarizing?
Summarizing is how we take larger selections of text and reduce them to their bare essentials:
the gist, the key ideas, the main points that are worth noting and remembering.
How to Write a Summary Paragraph
1. Read through the entire passage of text to get a sense of what it’s about and what the author’s message or purpose is.
2. Go back and reread the text in sections, highlighting or underlining
information you feel is important to the overall meaning.
3. Decide what the main idea of the passage is, and choose one point that supports it.
4. Write your summary, stating the main idea and one supporting detail clearly.
What Are We Doing When We Summarize?
We focus on the heart of the matter. We try to find the key words and
phrases that, when uttered later, still manage to capture the gist of
what we've read. We are trying to capture the main ideas and the crucial
details necessary for supporting them.
What is the first step in writing the summary paragraph?
Read through the entire passage of text to get a sense of what it’s about and what the author’s message or purpose is. In other words, determine the main idea.
Annotate! Annontate! Annotate!
These symbols…
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…to indicate THESE
things…
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…Or, just write NOTES!
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· Underlining
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Highlighting
· Stars or Asterisks *
· Arrows à to connect ideas/sentences
· (Parentheses) or [Brackets] to connect paragraphs into related sections
· Smiley faces or emojis
· Single-word labeling (like making note when you see a simile)
· Other:
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· Main idea/thesis
· Topic sentences of paragraphs
· Major reasons why (cause/effect)
· Supporting details/evidence
· Important quotes
· Extreme, suspicious, or questionable statements
· Writing techniques
· Persuasive appeals, propaganda, or rhetorical devices that you
notice
· Other:
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· Either above/between lines, or in the margins
· Reactions: Things like “wow!”
· Opinions: Where you agree/ disagree with the content
· Summarize: What that paragraph was about
· Paraphrase: Put a tough spot into plain English
· Questions: Either literal understanding, or questions you have for the
author
· Analysis: State why a sentence is important, sad, epic, etc.
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