How can we combine good summary and analysis?
Objective: Students will be able to write concise, objective, and comprehensive summaries interspersed with interpretive analysis.
1. Word of the Day #4: brevity
2. Language Lab (p. 91): Use this image as inspiration to write one declarative, one interrogative, and one exclamatory sentence.
3. Writer's Notebook #4: Favorite Holiday
4. We read silly movie summaries from the Seattle Times and discuss 3 characteristics of good summaries: they are concise, they are objective, and they are comprehensive.
5. In small groups, we worked together to compose a joint 12-sentence summary of pages 22-45 of Fahrenheit 451. (Here's an example from pages 2-21.)
6. We learned the difference between summary and interpretive analysis using illustrations by Norman Rockwell.
7. In our small groups, we added sentences of interpretive analysis to four of our summary sentences. (Here's an example from pages 2-21.)
8. Individually, we color-coded today's notebook entry, identifying sentences where we wrote summary and sentences where we wrote interpretive commentary or analysis.
9: Exit slip: We individually explained our writing style for today's notebook entry. What was the summary-to-analysis ratio? How was it mixed?
For next time: Read pages 46-65 of Fahrenheit 451 (finish Part 1). As you read, select 3 passages that tell you something about a character. For each selection, write 1 sentence summarizing what happens and 2 sentences interpreting and analyzing the passage. (3 passages x 3 sentences = 9 sentences total)
Objective: Students will be able to write concise, objective, and comprehensive summaries interspersed with interpretive analysis.
1. Word of the Day #4: brevity
2. Language Lab (p. 91): Use this image as inspiration to write one declarative, one interrogative, and one exclamatory sentence.
3. Writer's Notebook #4: Favorite Holiday
4. We read silly movie summaries from the Seattle Times and discuss 3 characteristics of good summaries: they are concise, they are objective, and they are comprehensive.
5. In small groups, we worked together to compose a joint 12-sentence summary of pages 22-45 of Fahrenheit 451. (Here's an example from pages 2-21.)
6. We learned the difference between summary and interpretive analysis using illustrations by Norman Rockwell.
7. In our small groups, we added sentences of interpretive analysis to four of our summary sentences. (Here's an example from pages 2-21.)
8. Individually, we color-coded today's notebook entry, identifying sentences where we wrote summary and sentences where we wrote interpretive commentary or analysis.
9: Exit slip: We individually explained our writing style for today's notebook entry. What was the summary-to-analysis ratio? How was it mixed?
For next time: Read pages 46-65 of Fahrenheit 451 (finish Part 1). As you read, select 3 passages that tell you something about a character. For each selection, write 1 sentence summarizing what happens and 2 sentences interpreting and analyzing the passage. (3 passages x 3 sentences = 9 sentences total)