Summarizing
THIEVES
To Kill a Mockingbird
Young Adult Literature
Star Trek
100
We used this format to summarize non-fiction.
What is a precis?
100
The T in THIEVES stands for this.
What is title?
100
This character narrates the novel.
What is Scout?
100
This book, in both graphic novel and written as a journal and screen play, tells about 16 year old Steve Harmon who is on trial for murder.
What is Monster?
100
His is the captain of the Enterprise in The Next Generation series.
Who is Jean-luc Picard?
200
These are the three types of author's purpose.
What is informing, persuading, or entertaining?
200
The H in THIEVES stands for this.
What is heading?
200
This character breaks his arm.
Who is Jem?
200
This graphic novel series follows the story of Emily, a stonekeeper, and her brother Navin.
What is Amulet?
200
This pointed eared character is the first Enterprise's chief science officer.
Who is Commander Spock?
300
What goes in the first sentence of a precis? Name three.
Author's credentials, author's name, title of the article, an action verb, and the thesis.
300
The V in THIEVES stands for this.
What are visuals and vocab?
300
This is the neighbor who sympathizes with Atticus and bakes cakes for Scout and Jem.
Who is Miss Maudie?
300
This novel by 50 cent starts with Butterball knocking a kid's teeth out with a sock filled with D batteries.
What is Playground?
300
In this original series, this species is the main antagonist.
Who are the Klingons?
400
How the author develops their thesis is in this sentence of the precis.
What is the second sentence?
400
The S in THIEVES stands for this.
What is summary?
400
This character has a morphine addiction.
Who is Mrs. Dubose?
400
This series follows a common teen who finds out he's the son of Poseidon.
What is Percy Jackson and the Olympians?
400
This was going to be the main antagonist of the Next Generation series, but the large circular ears and extra make-up was too expensive.
Who are the Ferengi?
500
The third sentence of the precis deals with this.
What is the author's purpose?
500
The Es in THIEVES stand for these two things.
What are every first sentence and end of chapter questions?
500
This character drinks coca-cola in a bag to pretend to be drunk because it "gives people a reason" for him to live with a Black wife.
Who is Mr. Dolphus Raymond?
500
This novel follows Junior as he chooses to attend the mostly white Reardon High School instead of the high school on the reservation.
What is The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian?
500
Name all 13 Star Trek movies, in order.
What is The Motion Picture, The Wrath of Khan, The Search for Spock, The Voyage Home, The Final Frontier, The Undiscovered Country, Generations, First Contact, Insurrection, Nemesis, Star Trek, Into Darkness, Beyond