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Determining Importance  Summary Writing

Determining Importance  Summary Writing. Step 1: Identify SWBST format Step 2: Writing focus: Summary paragraph. What is a summary paragraph?. A succinct paragraph that condenses what you read into a format that outlines only what is most important (hence: determining importance).

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Determining Importance  Summary Writing

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  1. Determining Importance  Summary Writing Step 1: Identify SWBST format Step 2: Writing focus: Summary paragraph

  2. What is a summary paragraph? • A succinct paragraph that condenses what you read into a format that outlines only what is most important(hence: determining importance). A summary paragraph is NOT: • Retelling the story in shorter form.

  3. A high-quality summary cont. • Uses facts and details rather than your opinion; this summary should not include you at all • (No “I think that” or “In my opinion” or “This probably means…”) • Ends with a summarizing statement Does not give away the end of the book!

  4. Determining Importance  Summary Writing Write down this mnemonic sideways on your paper and fill it in: • S (Somebody) Little Red Riding Hood • W (Wanted) Wanted to take food to her grandma • B (But) But the big bad wolf found out • S (So) So he went to Grandma’s house • T (Then) Then Little Red Riding Hood had to face the big bad wolf • Theme: Don’t trust a wolf in sheep’s clothing

  5. Organized by Plot Line Diagram… • Exposition:Somebody (Who is the main character?) • Exposition:Wanted (What did he/she want?) • Rising Action & Climax:But (What was the problem/conflict?) • Falling Action:So (What did he/she do to try and solve the problem?) • Resolution:Then (Then how did it get resolved/end?) • Theme:

  6. A high-quality summary ALWAYS starts with….. • Aclear, direct topic sentence that states the title (correctly punctuated), the author, and the basic idea. Example: In Pam Munoz Ryan’s book Esperanza Rising, the protagonist’s life is uprooted after a tragedy in her family forces them to leave behind the life they knew and move to California.

  7. Topic Sentencecont. • A one-sentence “gist” statement of what the whole story is really about: this man’s quest for return home! • Which sounds best? OPTION 1: Now I am going to tell you about the Greek epic “The Odyssey.” It is about one man’s unrelenting quest to return home. OPTION 2: The Greek epic “The Odyssey” is about one man’s unrelenting quest to return home after the Trojan War. OPTION 3: The Greek epic “The Odyssey” describes one man’s unrelenting quest to return home after the Trojan War.

  8. Easy Method for Writing Topic Sentences

  9. Work Time • Use your Raymond’s Run Note-catcher to help youcomplete a SWBST worksheet for this story • Using the information from your worksheet, type a Somebody Wanted But So Then + Theme summary for the story

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