1. Hello,
My name is
Mr. Thompson

2. Any Questions?

3. Writing Summaries
Today’s Goal:
Improve your summarization skills

4. What Do You Know?
Let’s share what we know about
writing summaries?

6. A Summary...
Gets to the Heart of the Matter
Is Focused on Main Idea
Includes Key Details / Important Facts
Is Short and Sweet

7. One Way to Summarize
Stories
Somebody
Wanted
But
So

8. One Way to Summarize
Stories
Somebody - The 3 Little Pigs
Wanted - To build their own houses
But - The wolf wanted to eat them
and blew down 2 of the houses
So - they all moved to the brick house
and the wolf fell down the chimney!

9. Movie/TV/Book Review
Using the Somebody Wanted But
So Model... Summarize the plot of
a story you recently watched or
read.

10. Movie/TV/Book Review
Now, share summary with your
elbow partner.

11. Year-in-Review
It’s the end of the school year. I am sure many
great things have happened this last year at
Plato Academy.
Let’s pretend you have the opportunity to
write a year-in-review summary for the
Tampa Bay Times.
In this review, keep things focused to the most
important things about the school year.

12. Step 1
Brainstorm about everything you
have learned this year at Plato
Academy.
Take a few minutes to do this by
yourself.

13. Step 2
Take a few minutes to share with
the people around you.
Write down anything that your
neighbor helped you remember.

14. Step 3
Boil down your 6th grade experience to
the heart of the matter.
What is the most important thing
about the 6th grade experience?
Overall, what have you learned and
how have you grown this school year?

15. Almost Time to Write...
Your words count. In fact, they
cost too! You will be charged 10
cents every word. Plus, you only
have $5.00 to spend!
So, make sure to stay focused.

16. Step 4
Write a summary of the school year.
Remember to stay within budget!
When you finish, glue it to a piece of
construction paper and decorate.
Near the end of our session, we’ll
share our summaries.

17. A Way to Summarize
Nonfiction
Who?
What?
When?
Where?
Why?
How?

18. Making the Great Wall
of China
Goal: Improve/Review our
knowledge about the
achievements of Ancient China.

19. What Do We Know
About...
The Great Wall of China?
When was it built?
Why was it built?
How far does it stretch?

22. Should the Wall Have
Been Built?
I want you to start thinking
about the benefits and costs
involved with the building of The
Great Wall of China.

23. Step 1
Read the t wo page document about The
Great Wall.
You may take any notes or underline
anything that is important.

24. Step 2
On the grey card list the benefits and
costs of constructing the Wall.
Benefits Costs

25. Step 3
Share your list with your elbow
partner.
As you share, explain your
thinking.

26. It is Time to Pick a Side
Should the wall have been built or not?
Assume you are someone Emperor Qin
trusts. Explain to him why or why not he
should build this wall.
You must:
Include support for your opinion
Address both sides of the argument

27. Constructing the Wall
It took thousands of years to
complete the wall...
We are going to get started with
the early steps of building our
own wall...

28. Making the Wall
Using the grey bricks, write down
important facts about The Great
Wall of China.
Pull this information from your
brain, from your textbook, and
from the reading resources I
provided.