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UNIT ONEREADING FOCUS ESSAYSCollection 1: Paraphrasing
Collection 2: Analyzing Style: Key Details
COLLECTION 1 READING FOCUS
Paraphrasing An efficient way of checking your own
understanding of what you are reading is to paraphrase, or put into your own words, what you’ve read.
PARAPHRASING
When you paraphrase what you’ve read, you keep the author’s intent but use language that’s your own.
Paraphrasing is probably a harder skill than memorizing a portion of the text. It requires complete comprehension of the text. It shows you can explain what the author means
in your own way.
PARAPHRASING
The author of an epic such as Beowulf uses poetic language to share ideas about events, characters, and beliefs.
Unlike modern readers, the original audiences of this epic poem would have been familiar with . . . the hero and his adventures the rhymes and rhythms of the language
PARAPHRASING
Although the style of Beowulf makes the poem beautiful, it can sometimes be difficult for a modern reader to understand.
Paraphrasing is a good way to capture the meaning of the poem’s details.
PARAPHRASING
To paraphrase a passage,
1. First look for words that represent nouns you recognize—
People, Places, ThingsWrite them in order on a Column Style Chart
NOUNS VERBS PHRASES
PARAPHRASING
2. Then, read again and identify the actions or verbs that seem to go with these nouns and write them in order, next to the nouns on your chart.
Also note any phrases that complement or are related to each group of nouns and verbs.
NOUNS VERBS PHRASES
PARAPHRASING3. Re-read each group of words in your chart; then
re-read the original passage.
Example passage: As skyward swept the night-black plumes of dragon breath, how every heart of man did pound to flee.
NOUNS VERBS PHRASES
Plumes
Heart
Swept
did pound
Of dragon breath
Skyward
Of man
To flee
PARAPHRASING Use the chart to rewrite the passage in your own
words:
Example: When smoke from dragons rose in the air, men wanted to run away.
NOUNS
VERBS PHRASES
Plumes
Heart
Swept
did pound
Of dragon breath
Skyward
Of man
To flee
PARAPHRASING
Your Turn
Read the lines from an early passage of Beowulf, “The Monster Grendel” (lines 5-14) in your textbook. Then, create a paraphrase by putting the text into your own words.
Share your version of the paraphrase with the class.
Notice that a paraphrase is shorter than the original and combines repetitions into a single statement.
PARAPHRASING
Share your version of the paraphrase with the class!