Summary Writing
The 5Ws.
What is Who, What, When, Where, Why?
What is a one-word summary of the big ideas in a text.
Define Flat Character.
What is a character that has little to no complexity (Simplistic/unrealistic)?
Define Text Evidence.
Providing a quote or detail from the text to support your claim.
Define Climax.
Define Objective.
What is an unbiased opinion?
How every thematic statement should begin.
Define Antagonist.
What is a character who gets in the way of what the protagonist wants/needs?
Define Plagiarism.
What is using someone else's words as your own without giving credit to the original author.
Define exposition.
What is the introduction to the characters, setting, and conflict?
Define Infer.
What is information that the author implies without telling directly (i.e. read between the lines)?
Define Thematic Statement.
What is a generalization about human nature?
Define Static Character.
What is a character who undergoes little to no change over the course of a story.
The length your quote should be when providing text evidence.
What is 1-2 sentences?
Define Conflict.
What is the tension/problem that is introduced at the beginning, which increases over the course of the story.
The difference between a summary statement and a thematic statement.
What is a summary gives details from the text while a thematic statement is a generalization?
The 4 steps in writing a thematic statement.
1. Generate a list of topics.
2. Choose a topic from the list.
2. Write "The author believes that..."
3. Tell me what the author believes about your chosen topic.
Define Dynamic Character.
What is a character who undergoes significant change in the course of a story?
The reason you should provide text evidence.
What is supporting your claim, proving your answer is true and relevant, giving yourself credibility.
The point in which a character makes a choice they cannot come back from.
What is the Inciting Incident/Point of No Return?
Provide an objective summary with all 5Ws for The Lottery.
Answers vary (must include Tessie Hutchinson, pulling names from cards, during the summer, in a small town, and a thematic statement about tradition).
Provide a thematic statement for Lamb to the Slaughter in which the topic is Revenge.
Answers vary (must include how the author feels about revenge and no text specific information).
Answers vary (character must have a significant change from the beginning of the story to the end).
Three things you should always include with text evidence.
What is quotation marks, page number, and explanation of the quote?
Draw and label a plot structure on the board with all six points.
Answers should include, in the following order: exposition, inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.