In Your Own Words…

1. In Your Own Words… PARAPHRASING

2. By the End, You will Know… • How to put a passage in your own words without changing the meaning • The definition of Paraphrasing • How to find the main idea of the text in order to paraphrase it

3. What is Paraphrasing??? • PARAPHRASING IS… • A rewriting of text in your own words • Used to clarify meaning • Used to lengthen a longer statement while keeping the main ideas

4. So How Do We Do It? • Read the passage carefully • Decide the main ideas of the passage • Highlight important words or phrases • Put the main points in your own words PARAPHRASE ME!

5. Brain Pop • Let’s watch a quick Brain Pop video that explains paraphrasing in more detail. Paraphrasing Brain Pop

6. Example 1 Passage from Book Ancient Egyptians believed that Osiris, a good and wise king, was the first pharaoh. He spread knowledge to other parts of the world, while his wife, Isis, ruled Egypt in his place.

7. Good Example 1 ORIGINAL PASSAGE Ancient Egyptians believed that Osiris, a good and wise king, was the first pharaoh. He spread knowledge to other parts of the world, while his wife, Isis, ruled Egypt in his place. PARAPHRASED PASSAGE King Osiris was the first pharaoh and spread knowledge. Queen Isis ruled Egypt when he was gone.

8. Poor Example 1 Original Passage Ancient Egyptians believed that Osiris, a good and wise king, was the first pharaoh. He spread knowledge to other parts of the world, while his wife, Isis, ruled Egypt in his place. Poor Paraphrasing King Osiris was an ancient Egyptian King and the first pharaoh. He was good and wise because he spread knowledge to other parts of the world. His wife Isis ruled Egypt in his place. • This paraphrase is poorly done because the student paraphrased sentence by sentence

9. Example 2 Passage from Book Upon returning home, Osiris was murdered by his evil brother Set, who cut Osiris’s body into pieces and dumped it in the Nile River. Isis found the body and put it back together by winding linen bandages around it. Osiris and Set

10. Good Example 2 Original Passage Upon returning home, Osiris was murdered by his evil brother, Set who cut his body into pieces and dumped it in the Nile River. Isis found the body and put it back together by winding linen bandages around it. Paraphrased Passage Osiris’s brother, Set, killed Osiris by cutting his body into pieces, and Isis put the body back together. Isis, Osiris’s wife

11. Poor Example 2 Original Passage Upon returning home, Osiris was murdered by his evil brother, Set who cut his body into pieces and dumped it in the Nile River. Isis found the body and put it back together by winding linen bandages around it. Poor Paraphrasing Osiris was murdered and Isis found the body • This paraphrase is FAR too simple and leaves out key details.

12. Your Turn Remember the Rules • Read the passage carefully • Find the main ideas • Highlight important words or phrases • Put the main points in your own words Passage from Book In 1857, a British expedition led by Richard Burton and John Speke set out to find the great lakes shown on Ptolemy’s map. After reaching Lake Tanganyika, the two men split up because Burton was ill.

13. Now You Try! Remember to highlight the right words In 1857, a British expedition led by Richard Burton and John Speke set out to find the great lakes shown on Ptolemy’s map. After reaching Lake Tanganyika, the two men split up because Burton was ill. Which one is the best? • Richard Burton and his friend looked for the great lakes shown on Ptolemy’s map. The men split up. • In 1857, Richard Burton and John Speke searched for the great lakes on Ptolemy’s map, but they had to split up when Burton was ill. • Two men from Britain looked for the great lakes, but had to split up because one was ill.

14. Paraphrasing Perfection Practice your paraphrasing Skills for Perfection • Read passage and write passage down on piece of paper. • Highlight the key words in the passage. • Paraphrase the passage in your own words. Passage from Book Speke discovered Victoria Nyanza and was convinced that the White Nile Flowed from it. A second expedition proved him right when he found the outlet of the Nile at a waterfall, which he named Ripon Falls.

15. …look like this? Original Passage Speke discovered Victoria Nyanza and was convinced that the White Nile flowed from it. A second expedition proved him right when he found the outlet of the Nile at a waterfall which he named Ripon Falls. Paraphrased Passage Speke found Victoria Nyanza, theoutlet of the Nile, which he called the Ripon Falls.

16. Plagiarism or Paraphrasing? What do you think?

17. There are no US federal laws that either allow or prohibit nudity. The courts have not ruled whether the right to engage in nudism is guaranteed by the Constitution under its freedom of expression provision. Thus, the legality of various forms of nudity is currently left up to the individual states and localities to decide. Nudity is generally allowed in some areas or some national parks, unless local laws have prohibited it. • In the United States there are no specific laws for or against nudity.  Courts have not decided whether or not the Constitution has stated that people have the right to public nudism.In turn, individual states are left to decide for themselves. Nudity is allowed in a few areas and parks unless states have local laws that state otherwise.

18. There are no US federal laws that either allow or prohibit nudity. The courts have not ruled whether the right to engage in nudism is guaranteed by the Constitution under its freedom of expression provision. Thus, the legality of various forms of nudity is currently left up to the individual states and localities to decide. Nudity is generally allowed in some areas or some national parks, unless local laws have prohibited it. • The practice of nudism is allowed in certain areas of national parks, unless there are local laws present that disallow it. The fact that there are no US federal laws either against, or in favor of nudity, means that whether nudity is allowed or prohibited is based on the laws of individual states.

19. CONGRATULATIONS! YOU HAVE SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED THIS LESSON ON PARAPHRASING! REMEMBER PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT!