Summarizing
What is the difference between a summary and a retelling?
Summary includes only important events and details. A retelling is every event that happens.
To make an inference, we use what two pieces of information?
Background knowledge/schema, and information from the text.
What is a quote?
A quote is to repeat the exact phrase or words from a book or person to use as evidence in a response.
What is the theme of a story?
Theme is the message, lesson, or moral that the author wants you to learn.
What is the definition of a summary?
A summary is a short description of the most important details in a text.
As the night ended, the sun splashed across Casey's bed. He opened his eyes slowly. The first thing he saw was the beautiful blue ribbon attached to the shiny medal hanging from his bookshelf. He couldn't help smiling as he thought back to the day before.
What inference can you make about Casey?
Casey has just woken up after winning a competition yesterday.
What makes a detail a key detail?
A key detail supports the central idea of the text.
True or False?
There can only be one theme in a story.
False
Sometimes there is more than one lesson learned in a story.
What is one thing you would include in a fiction summary but not in a nonfiction summary?
Possible answers:
The characters
The setting
As the night ended, the sun splashed across Casey's bed. He opened his eyes slowly. The first thing he saw was the beautiful blue ribbon attached to a medal hanging from his bookshelf. He couldn't help smiling as he remembered the day before.
What evidence could you use to make an inference.
As the night ended - tells that the event happened yesterday.
Blue ribbon/medal - he won an award.
What is the definition of theme?
A theme is the moral lesson or message the author wants the reader, or characters, to learn from the text.
Which of the following is not an example of a theme?
a) Don't judge a book by its cover
b) Doing the right thig can be scary but still needs to be done.
c) Amy should ask for help when she needs it.
C
A theme should not refer to a specific character and should be a lesson that anyone can learn.
What are the 5 parts (SWBST) to a fiction summary?
Somebody, wanted, but, so, then
Oscar thought it was time to get a breath of air, so he began to make his way to the surface. before he reached it, a large shadow came toward him. Was it a shark? He thought of his parents on the beach. Would this be the end of the vacation?
What can you infer that Oscar was doing?
Diving in the ocean/ swimming in the ocean/ snorkeling.
What is "schema"?
What you already know (background knowledge).
Which sentence below provides the best clue that a theme of a story is "Courage can be found in the people you least expect it?
a) "Why don't you carry them the rest of the way?" he responded irritably.
b) "How far had the samples gone?"
c) "The wind roared angrily, churning flakes of snow that had newly begun to fall."
d) "He was the smallest and youngest of the group, barely strong enough to carry his large backpack."
D
This detail shows that he is an unlikely courageous person.
Summarize "40 Acres and Maybe a Mule" in your own words.
Pascal is a slave working on a plantation in South Carolina. His brother, Gideon, returns to the plantation in the middle of the night after having escaped years before. Gideon and Pascal, along with another slave, Nelly, leave the plantation in search of a piece of land to call their own. Although the family faced many hardships throughout their journey, they are able to claim a piece of land and grow their own cotton. Before they are able to harvest it, the land is taken by a white man and they are forced to journey in search of another place to call home.
Oscar thought it was time to get a breath of air, so he began to make his way to the surface. before he reached it, a large shadow came toward him. Was it a shark? He thought of his parents on the beach. Would this be the end of the vacation?
What evidence could you use from this story to make an inference?
He had to get a breath of air, he made his way to the surface, Was it a shark?, he thought of his parents on the beach.
If the main idea of a story is that a boy remain friends with a girl who is far away by writing her letters, which of the following details would be most important?
a) "It was the first of many sharp, funny letters in which Charity's unique personality leapt off the page."
b) "The last time George saw Charity was when they were eight years old building forts of dirt and sticks..."
c) "When Charity's family moved to Texas, George was heartbroken."
A
This detail refers to the letters that George and Charity are sending to each other.
"IT was the first of many..."
Which detail provides the best clue that a theme of the story is "technology can have good effects?"
a) "The suspect had somehow entered the store, stolen the artwork and exited without any trace of fingerprints."
b) "Marta paced, her movements matching her storm of thoughts.
c) "She had been pondering for hours, but 30 seconds with this device, and she could find her answer!"
C
This detail shows a good effect of technology which is finding an answer quickly.