10/11 Analyzing Summaries

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• Please write your homework in your assignment book.
• Please review the goal and agenda for the day (posted in the classroom).

Today in class you will

• analyze summaries to identify strengths and weaknesses.

Why?

• To better extract key ideas from passages
• To develop your ability to write succinct summaries.

DIRECTIONS

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1.  Discuss with someone near you what you will be doing in class today and why (see above).       1 minute

2.  Review with a partner nearby: What is a topic, what is a main idea, what is a summary?.       2 minutes

3. Whole class discussion.         5 minutes
         
4.  With your group          5 minutes

• read a summary aloud
• discuss the summary against the criteria
• rate the summary against each of the criteria
• with the marker, write specific suggestions on the large paper that the author could use to improve the summary

5. Rotate clockwise when the teacher tells you and repeat #4.

6. Whole group discussion         15 minutes

• positives of a strong summary
• negatives of a weak summary
• identify the strongest summary
• identify the weakest summary

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Parents: Instead of Asking Your Child,

"What Did You Do in School Today?"

Ask them.......

• What are characteristics of a strong summary?