Assignment Details

Summarizing, Questioning, Connections

2018-2019

Humanities 63

Date Due

Oct. 1, 2018

Additional Info
If you have not yet completed the Summarizing, Questioning, and Connections graphic organizer worksheet for All Summer in a Day, please do so for homework. Hand the completed worksheet into the green bin on Monday.

Summarizing:
A summary is different than retelling. We must tell only the most important events of the story. We need to use our own words. An effective way to summarize is to use:
SOMEBODY: who is/are the main character(s)?
WANTED: what did they want?
BUT: What was the problem?
SO: How did the character(s) react to the problem?
THEN: How did the story end?

Big Idea:
What is the story mostly about?
Look at the title, beginning, and end for clues.
The big idea should be more than one word.
What does the author want the readers to take away? Why did the author write this story?

Questioning:
Simple Questions (avoid these): can be answered by reading a passage or recalling details.
Ex. What is the setting of the story? Describe the characters.
POWERFUL Questions (ask these): should make us think about the answer, answers may vary, will promote discussion.
Ex. How would you feel if this happened to you? Have you ever been jealous of someone like the children were of Margot?

Connections:

Connections can be: text-to-text, text-to-self, text-to-world, or text-to-media.

Connections:
- must be meaningful and detailed.
- should help you understand more about the story and about yourself.

Avoid surface level connections: 
Ex. "The children in the story love when it stops raining. I really love when summer comes because then it rains less."

Make DEEP connections:
Ex. "The children were mean to Margot because she was not born on Jupiter and had seen the sun before. After they got to enjoy the sun, they realized the gravity of what they had taken away from Margot. They felt bad about being mean. I was once mean to my cousin because I was jealous of her. I wanted to make her feel bad like I did, but then I felt sorry about how I had treated her. I learned that jealousy doesn't make anyone feel good."


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