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  STRETCH TEXT 2 WS 9.pdf   this is the complex text we will be studying, analyzing, and "CCG'ing." It is entitled "In Pursuit of Freedom"

 

  Info Summ rubric.pdf    This is the rubric that will be used to grade your informational summary essay

 

  peer feedback.pdf   This document will guide you through the peer editing stage of your writing

 

  START reading diagram.pdf  Here is the START reading diagram y'all wanted me to post on before, during, after metacognitive exercises for reading

 

 

 

 

Vocab for complex texts

 

  1. Word parts (suffixes, prefixes)
  2. Ellipsis
  3. Inference (prediction)
  4. Oxymoron (contradictions)
  5. Caption
  6. Paragraph break
  7. Visualization (vivid descriptions)
  8. Idiom
  9. Foreshadow
  10. Repetition (author wants you to feel intensity, suspense, horror, drama, exhilaration)
  11. Appositive (“you mad, bro?”/ “You are so fat, Cindy, you need help!”
  12. Onomatopoeia
  13. Symbol
  14. Descriptions of exact dates (*******)
  15. Wray, lamb (silent letters)
  16. Making connections
  17. Making judgments
  18. Personification
  19. Questioning
  20. Your goal is to analyze by marking up text, close reading the text, and taking notes in the text (clicking, chunking, GISTing)
  21. Plural possessive nouns (the childrens’ candies, the flocks’ trees, foxes’ dens) and singular possessive nouns (Kennedy’s hat, the girl’s purse, the boy’s pride)
  22. Morale, morality, moralist, moral (base, root words)
  23. Cause and effect
  24. Essential, important question (*****)
  25. Remember: I am trying to act like a detective whenever I read complex texts and even texts that I truly understand. I am trying to detect, analyze, deduce, infer, and always make notes of what I see as a trend or an important idea.
  26. Catharsis= whenever the author or yourself as a reader realizes an important, worldwide moral
  27. Theme- a universal and significant ideal
  28. POV (point of view)
  29. Motivations
  30. Motif=recurring idea or object in a text
  31. Central point (main idea)
  32. Topic (one or two-word phrase) vs. main idea (sentence)
  33. Conclusion
  34. Perspective
  35. Summarization
  36. Morality- good vs. bad/right vs. wrong

 

 

 

Informational Summaries Expository Writing

 

 

 

 

How do I write an informational summary that compares a main idea in multiple texts?

  1. Make sure to read, comprehend, and know thoroughly the three original texts you are comparing.
  2. Choose the main idea that you want to focus on in the three texts.
    1. reactions by police and white segregationists to the Freedom Riders
    2.  sacrifices made on the front lines of justice
    3. personal change and growth while participating in the civil rights movement
    4. Extract how your chosen main idea is presented in each text
    5. Provide relevant, supporting details (evidence) from each original text
    6. Create an outline for your informational summary
    7. Starting with the introductory paragraph, state the titles, text types, and authors of the texts you are going to be comparing. Then state a plan for the informational summary. This plan is also called a thesis statement or a focus statement.
      1. A thesis statement should be strong and valid.

                                          i.    Do not include main ideas that you cannot authentically support

                                         ii.    Example of a strong thesis statement: “In the text entitled “In Pursuit of Freedom,” William Mahoney makes sacrifices to promote equality and racial integration; moreover, Martin Luther King, Jr., experiences hardships and disadvantages to endorse egalitarianism in the biographical sketch entitled “Angry Young Man,” while women in the 1963 Birmingham bombings experience perturbing moments and unfathomable detriments in the historical document entitled “In Their Own Words.”

                                        iii.    Example of a weak thesis statement: “I am going to write an informational summary on sacrifices people made during the Sixties.”

  1. Support your focus statement with at least three details and examples from the three texts in the body paragraphs.
    1. Choose 3 details from “In Pursuit of Freedom” that give evidence and support your main idea/thesis statement
    2. Choose 3 details from “Angry Young Man” that give evidence and support your main idea/thesis statement
    3. Choose 3 details from “In Their Own Words” that give evidence and support your main idea/thesis statement
    4. Choose 3 details from “Ballad of Birmingham” that give evidence and support your main idea/thesis statement
    5. You should have four paragraphs in all. If you want, you can complete three body paragraphs—one for each text.
    6. Each body paragraph should have its own topic sentence (the first sentence of every body paragraph) that states what you will be discussing in the paragraph. This topic sentence is like your thesis statement and needs to connect in some way to the main idea of your whole essay.
    7. 10.  End your summary with a conclusion paragraph that includes a concluding statement that restates the focus statement and adds an interesting final thought.
    8. 11.  Make sure to proofread your essay and have a peer edit your work to check for mistakes.
    9. 12.  Do not use judgments or bias in your essay. You are not judging the morality of people. You are simply stating facts and backing up your main idea with relevant evidence. Think of yourself like a lawyer—you are trying to prove your point the best way you know how without inserting your own values or opinions.
    10. 13.  Remember the purpose for your essay—to inform in a summary.

 

 

 

 

  1. 1.            Introductory paragraph
    1. a.     Text types, authors, and titles
    2. b.    Focus statement/thesis statement
    3. 2.            Body paragraph
      1. a.     Topic sentence
      2. b.    1 detail from “In Pursuit of Freedom”
      3. c.     1 detail
      4. d.    1 detail
      5. e.     Conclusion sentence
      6. 3.            Body paragraph
        1. a.     Topic sentence
        2. b.    1 detail from “Angry Young Man”
        3. c.     1 detail
        4. d.    1 detail
        5. e.     Conclusion sentence
        6. 4.            Body paragraph
          1. a.     Topic sentence
          2. b.    1 detail from “Ballad of Birmingham”
          3. c.     1 detail
          4. d.    1 detail
          5. e.     Conclusion sentence
        7. 5.            Conclusion paragraph
        8.    a.     Restate focus statement
          1. b.    Final thought

 

What do I have to complete to go on the NOLA trip?

1. biopoem
2. informational summary of “In Pursuit of Freedom”
3. student click, chunk, gist assessment
4. Complete Fishbowl with proficiency
5. 75 total READ 180 software minutes
6. road map project
7. character sketch of one Freedom Rider
8. annotated (marked up) booklet
9. Increase Lexile on SRI