Why Summarize?

• Helps students learn to determine main ideas and consolidate supporting details.

• Enables students to focus on key words and phrases of an assigned text that are worth noting and remembering.

Framework Questions

– What are the main ideas?

– What are the crucial details necessary for supporting the ideas?

– What information is irrelevant or unnecessary?

Somebody Wanted But So

Narrative Text

Somebody Wanted But SoRoger Wanted a pair of suede

shoes (56)But he didn’t have the money So, he tried to “snatch” Mrs. Jones

pocketbook to get the money.Then

Mrs. Jones Grabbed Roger and held him tight

But didn’t let go until she got him back to her apartment.

Roger had to go with Mrs. Jones to her apartment.

ThenMrs. Jones wanted to know why

Roger wanted the pocketbook

But Roger didn’t tell her at first So, she decided he should wash his face.

ThenRoger wanted to run away but he didn’t So he listened to Mrs. Jones talk about

how she made mistakes too.Then

Roger wanted Mrs. Jones to trust him

But “did not trust the woman not to trust him” (58).

So he sat where she could “see him out of the corner of her eye if she wanted too” (58).

ThenMrs. Jones Wanted to help Roger But she didn’t want to just feed

him food or give him $10So, she taught him right from wrong p55

ThenRoger Wanted to say “Thank

you, m’am” 59But all he could do was move his lips

So he just “turned at the foot of the barren stoop and looked up at the large woman in the door.”

Who/What Purpose But So

Informational Text

Who or What

Purpose but So

Monterozzi Has the most famous cemeteries in the world

They are not like other cemeteries

They are painted tombs carved out of rock as houses for the after live

Etruscans Built the tombs Their language is difficult to decipher

We study their paintings.

Tarquinia Provides archaeologists evidence of artistic styles and tastes of the Etruscans

But it reflects only the life of the wealthiest Etruscans.

So, we know little of what the poor Etruscans thought of life and death.

Romans Borrowed many features of the Etruscan’s culture

But many were frightened by the cemeteries

So it was not until 1489, that an excavation of the tombs took place.

Water and neglect

Destroyed some of the tombs`

Visitor notes and sketchbooks Provide information no longer “obtainable from the tombs themselves” p356.

Who/What Purpose But So

Persuasive Text - Speech

Who or What Purpose or Do but So

Continental Congress

Absolve allegiance to the Great Britain (declare independence) (p2)

Independence is not shared equally (p4)

Americans are hypocritical (p6)

American government

Denounce slavery (p6) Do not stop the slave-trade (p6)

"fiendish and shocking" "spectacle" of the American slave-trade continues (p7)