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A summary is a short retelling of a story, nonfiction text, media, or an event. You summarize every time you tell friends about your vacation or a movie you saw. You can't tell everything, so you tell what's most important: the main idea and a few details. The length of your summary depends on the length of the text you are summarizing. For example, if you are asked to summarize a one page article, you may need a one to two paragraph summary of the text. However, if you are asked to summarize an entire novel, you will most likely need more paragraphs because you are condensing a larger piece of text. What goes into a great summary? State the main ideas of the article or text. Identify the most important details that support the main ideas. Write your summary in your own words, except for quotations. Express the underlying meaning of the article, not just the superficial details. Summary Rubric When writing a summary and grading one, you need to make sure the author has included these key elements: Has a main idea/concept Includes important facts and details Is in the writer’s own words Direct use of text from selections should have quotation marks Reflects underlying meaning Includes details in logical order
Writing a Summary Directions: Below in a nonfiction article. Your job is to read the article and answer the corresponding questions. Next, you need to go back into the text and highlight the major parts of the article that you will use in your summery. Once you have highlighted the main ideas and supporting details, it is then time to compose your one paragraph summary. Water, Water, Everywhere!
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Name: __________________________________ Period: ____ Date: ____ Writing a Summary During the last class period we discussed the components of a great/excellent summary. You read an article and wrote a summary as well. Now you are going to read an article and write a summary on it. Highlight the main idea and details that you want to include in your summary in the text. You must make sure that the summary has all the needed/necessary components! Use the rubric below to help you gage (predict) your summary’s score based on what you wrote. Rubric Has a main idea/concept Includes important facts and details Is in the writer’s own words Direct use of text from selections should have quotation marks Reflects underlying meaning Includes details in logical order
Ready for this jelly? Strange sea creatures invade West Coast beaches By Jason Kravarik, CNN updated 3:23 PM EDT, Tue August 19, 2014 Oxnard, California (CNN) -- Thousands of strange sea creatures are washing ashore on California beaches, puzzling tourists and thrilling scientists quick to explain the phenomenon. "The scientific name is Velella velella," said David Bader, director of education at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California. "They're jelly-like creatures, but they're not exactly jellyfish." Also known as "by-the-wind sailors," the creatures have a clear, distinctive fin sticking up from a blue, oval body no larger than the palm of a hand. "Every now and then, the currents and the winds will change and these guys will, instead of being pushed out to sea, they actually wind up on the beach," Bader told CNN. They first started showing up in Washington and Oregon, and by mid-July reached San Francisco. On Thursday, photos turned up on Twitter from Hollywood and Silver Strand beaches in Oxnard. By-the-wind sailors do sting to catch their food, but humans need not worry. "That sting is not very potent. It's nothing that could actually get through my skin," Bader said while holding an assortment of the creatures. Velella velella feeds on plankton and fish eggs caught with tentacles that hang down from its jelly-like body. The creatures float on top of the ocean with their fins sticking straight up, leaving them at the mercy of the wind and the current. "Out at sea, they look like bubbles on the surface of the ocean until you get up on them," said Julie Bursek of NOAA's Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary. They don't live long on the shore, causing their deep blue color to fade until their clear, tougher fins are all that's left behind. "A lot of people probably never knew an organism like this existed in the world," Bader said. "And you know the winds change, and all of a sudden they wash up on shore and we get to see what the ocean is really made of." Write your summary below! __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ If you had to grade your summary, what would be the score? _________________________ Now, have your partner score it. ______________ Directory: subsites subsites -> The erotic ontology of cyberspace by michael heim chapter 7 of The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality subsites -> Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Management and Technology subsites -> The erotic ontology of cyberspace introduction subsites -> The Essence of vr what is Virtual Reality? subsites -> Assess the effectiveness of President Franklin d roosevelt in preparing for, and leading the nation through, World War II Download 61.8 Kb. Share with your friends:
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