LWC Chapters 1 & 2Annotating & Summarizing

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Pairing Activity

You will be given a card.The cards will have different numbers and colors. Some cards will say “Wild.”

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Find someone with . . .

A different number, different color

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If you have a Wild card,

Wait until all the pairs are formed, and then choose a pair to join.

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Find someone with . . .

A different number, same colorThe person with the Wild card, joins later.

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Find someone with the. . .

Same number, different colorThe person with the Wild card, joins later.

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These cards will enable us to form pairs today.

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Chapter 1 Review

1. How do the three sisters, Rosaura, Gertrudis and Tita, differ?

2. How would you describe Mama Elena?  Why?

3. What does Tita protest?  What is her mother's response to her protest?

4. Why does Pedro accept Mama's offer to marry Rosaura? 

Chapter 2 Review1.  How does Tita respond to her situation?2.  Tita wishes that she, and not the

chickens, had been neutered.  Why? (what does “neuter” mean?)

3.  What does Rosaura suspect about Pedro’s feelings?

4.  What happens to the icing as a result of Tita’s tears?

5.  When do things reverse themselves in the chapter?  Explain.

Questions

•I am going to go down a row of people, and read one question that you wrote down for either chapter.

•After one person reads a question, we are going to attempt to answer it.

Find someone with the. . .

Same number, different colorThe person with the Wild card, joins later.

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With your partner, describe why these words or phrases are important.1. January Christmas rolls (p. 16, p.14)2. basting (p. 12)3. cold (p. 19, 16)4. bedspread (p. 19)5. Chabela wedding cake (p. 39-40)6. heat (p. 16, 38)7. chicken castration (p. 27)8. nuptial sheet (p. 40)

Let’s take a quick 5-minute break.

Do you write down what you read?

What is annotation?

•A systematic approach to reading that involves writing symbols on a text while reading.

•More active interaction with text•Better retention

Disadvantages of highlighting

•When you look back over your text, the highlights all look the same.

•Need to re-read what you highlight•Many tend to over-highlight•Difficult to distinguish between main

ideas and supporting ideas

Guidelines for annotating

•Evaluate your purpose for reading•Always read with a pencil in hand•Read with the intent of locating important

ideas•Review your marks

What do I annotate?

•Essays in English: Main ideas, major supporting ideas, unfamiliar words, items in a list, concepts you don’t understand

•Literature: unfamiliar words, morals/themes, symbolism, important events, your reactions

•Content-Area Courses (History, Science, etc.): terms, definitions, examples, questions about confusing concepts, etc.

How do I annotate?•Label main idea. Put TS for THESIS.•Circle transitions words like: FIRST,

SECOND, ALSO, etc.•Underline unfamiliar words—then look them

up!•Number items in a list 1, 2, 3, 4.•Write key words in the margin to summarize

important paragraphs or sections.•Write ??? if you have questions. Then figure

out the answer.

Please number the paragraphs.

Annotating “Effects of the Automobile”

Let’s do the first page together up to paragraph 7.

Find someone with . . .

A different number, different color

Do the second page together.

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Annotate for the following:

•Circle transitions words like: FIRST, SECOND, ALSO, etc.

•Underline unfamiliar words—then look them up!

•Number items in a list 1, 2, 3, 4.•Write key words in the margin to

summarize important paragraphs or sections.

•Write ??? if you have questions. Then figure out the answer.

Now that we have practiced one powerful strategy. It’s now time to do another strategy.

Summarizing

•Summarizing allows you to monitor comprehension of material.

•Summarizing helps you understand the organizational structure of lessons or texts.

•Summarizing is a skill at which most adults must be proficient to be successful.

Steps in Summarizing•Figure out the most important points in the

reading. Hopefully, you annotated them.•Make a brief outline of the most important

points.•Mention the author, the specific genre, and

the title of the reading selection in the first sentence.

•State the topic of the reading and the thesis/main idea at the beginning of your summary.

• Include only the most important points and supporting details.

Steps in Summarizing (continued)•Don’t include your personal opinions or

experiences.•Present the ideas in the order in which

they were discussed.•Introduce the author’s key points with

citation verbs and expressions (e.g. the author points out, according to).

•Use transitional expressions to make connections between ideas (however, furthermore, for example, etc.)

Let’s look at an example.

•Turn to the page entitled “Steps in Summarizing Informational Text.”

•What information is included in the first sentence?

•Circle the words the indicate the writer is making a new point.

•What do you notice about the tense?

Let’s summarize the article we just read.•Turn to the page entitled “ Writing Frame

– A Summary of Informational Text.”•Let’s do the first few points together.

Find someone with . . .

A different number, same colorThe person with the Wild card, joins later.

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With your new partner,

•work on writing a summary together for the rest of the article.

•It should not take that long if you understood the article.

•Remember that you don’t have to write a lot. You just have to be succinct.

•I will call on a few pairs to share their summaries.