Let me just say first and foremost how PROUD I am of you for last weeks responses! I thought the majority of you did a wonderful job of following the example and really sharing your thoughts. I know your responses will continue to improve and I can't wait to see what you'll write next!
This week we've been working on summarizing. Summarizing is the art of taking A LOT of information from a story or article and shrinking it down to point of the most important facts. We use summarizing all the time to give information to people quickly. Your assignment due Thursday is to write a one paragraph summary of the book you are currently reading at home. For the purpose of this assignment, your paragraph should consist of 5-7 sentences. Remember, focus on the "need to know" instead of the "nice to know" information.
Example (as always, include the book you are reading and the author's name):
I am reading Lone Survivor: The eyewitness account of Operation Redwing and the lost heroes of SEAL team 10. It is a true story, that like many books about the Navy SEALs, starts out right in the middle of the action. There is a bit of a lead up to this and it starts with Marcus Luttrell, the lone survivor, going through his tough, country style upbringing in Texas. At a very young age Luttrell decides he wants to become a Navy Seal, seeking out help and training from a former Green Beret named Billy Shelton. The difficult challenges that he faces while training to become a SEAL are shown in a lot of detail from the physical, mental, and emotional point of view.
I'm looking forward to your responses. Remember, we just began learning how to summarize, so don't get upset if you don't get it exactly right the first time. PROGRESS NOT PERFECTION!!
Mr. Dickson
the book i am reading is called sleepover by rowan mcauley. it was six o'clock on friday morning and olivia couldn't wait school was ove because it was the last day of school and she is going to sleepover at her friend Ching Ching's house. when olivia got to Ching Ching house she got a little scared about sleeping over and if she went home Ching Ching would be mad at her.
ReplyDeleteThe book I am reading is titled "The Calder Game". My book is by Blue Balliett. "Calder's friends go's to his old teacher which is very fun and told how his new teacher is not letting them talk or have fun. They talk about a game at the museum they saw. Calder is in England trying to figure out what the statue in there square is for.
ReplyDeleteI am reading Georgs Marvolis medicine,By Roul Doul,it is about a boy that doesent like his grandma, and she needs medicin so he decids to make a medicin for her so he puts a lot of nasty stuff, when she drank it it made her grow taller.
ReplyDeleteThe book I am reading is ''The Name of this Book is Secret'' by Pseudonymous Bosch. This book is about a girl named Cassandra who thinks the school is built on toxic waste because she smelled rotten eggs. This is the same smell when a magician died and wrote a coded HELP message. Then Cass met a guy named Max Ernest, and he thinks he could help her figure out about the toxic waste and the HELP message. I like this book because it has a lot of MYSTERIES.
ReplyDeleteThe book I'm reading is called the ultament bug book by Luise Woelflein. The book is about different types of bugs. The first bug I learned about was the Atlas Moth. In the middle, I learned about wasps. At the end, I learned about the katydid. My favorite bug was the praying mantis.
ReplyDeleteIn the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, Percy tries to defeat Kronos instead of Hades. Percy has a hellhound named Mrs. O'Leary, and it is as big as a living room. Hades sends Percy into the River of Souls, and Anabeth takes him out of the river and he defeats Hades. He gets help by his halfblood friends to go into the cave of darkness.
ReplyDeleteIn the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, Percy tries to defeat Kronos instead of Hades. Percy has a hellhound named Mrs. O'Leary, and it is as big as a living room. Hades sends Percy into the River of Souls, and Anabeth takes him out of the river and he defeats Hades. He gets help by his halfblood friends to go into the cave of darkness.
ReplyDeleteWell Iam reading HOW TO RIDE A DRAGON STORMS I think thats a wiered name well until know Hiccup
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a group of vikings kidknaped him and they were going to america.I want to continue reading.
I am currently reading "Diary of a Wimpy Kid Dog Days". Greg Heffrely already planned his summer vacation on the couch playing video games eating chips. His mom Susan Hefferly has his summer planned to play outside in nature. By the way his mom had his summer planned out, Greg is getting stressed for he has planned his summer diffrently. As summer passes, it gets worse as his little brother Manny and his big brother Rodrick gets in the way of his summer. Greg Heffrley gets lonely as his friend Rowley had an argument with each other an starts avioding Greg. To everyone, it's a happy summer, but to Greg, it's two months of dog days.
ReplyDeleteThe book I am reading is Shipwreck on the Pirate Island written by Geronimo Stilton.Geronimo Stilton and his family are going on vacation to an island.The plane crashes into the sea and they swim to an island.Geronimo had read a book about pirates.Strange things happen on the island and he thinks there are pirates and ghosts
ReplyDeleteI am reading Goosebumps Horrorland Revenge of the Living Dummy by R.L.Stine: It is a fiction book like all the other Goosebumps books it has a villain the villains are evil dummies. Britney's cousin Ethan has a evil dummy named Slappy. Her friend has a dummy that takes minds away and Molly buries the dummy. Slappy tries to get his evil friend out so he can control peoples minds. Britney follows Slappy and throws him at the mind stealer dummy and the mind stealer dummy takes Slappy's mind away.
ReplyDeleteI am currently reading "This isn't what it looks like" by Pseudonymous Bosch. It is fantasy,it is about Cass who ate a time travel chocolate. In the past the delicacy has caused a lot of trouble.Cass is stuck in the past and does not know her way home. If only she could leave the past behind! Max-Ernest (Cass's best friend) who has to face the facts that Cass in in the past at the hospital because of the time travel chocolate. He is confused and concerned about his best friend
ReplyDeletethe book that I am currently reading is called, Room One, by Andrew Clements. The summary that I am telling is.... Ted Hammond met a girl, and he had no idea who she was and didn't want anything to do with her, but thanks to his paper route, he had something to do with her. Until he had heard her story. Her dad was killed in iraq, and her mom's sort of boyfriend, was chasing him because he had some kind of mind problem, and thought he had to be with them. And so Tim kept on providing them with food and water, and then one day when he was on his paper route and he stopped at the house they were staying at, they weren't there you'll have to read the rest to find out what happens.( they aren't supposed to be in the house because it isn't theirs, and it is an abandoned farm house.) Thank you have a good day!!!!! :) :) :)<3 <3<3
ReplyDeleteMy author names Roald Dalh. The books name is esio trot.The main character name is Mr.Hoppy. The story was about a guy named Mr.Hoppy, he loved his plant and a woman named Mrs.Silver who loved her pet tortoise.One day, Mrs.Silver wanted to make her tortoise grew so she asked Mr.Hoppy if he knew how to make it grew bigger. He gave her a note.After that he went to all the pet store to get some tortoises and every day he would switched the tortoises . A month later the tortoise grew so big, it couldn't fit in her house. He gave her a diffrent note. After a few weeks Mrs.Silver became Mrs Hoppy.
ReplyDeleteThe book I am reading is "Artemis Fowl" written by Eoin Colfer. Artemis Fowl,who is an 13 year old genius, went to Ho Chi Minh City to try to get information about the fairies so he could get gold from the fairies so he could be rich. Then Holly,an elf goes to fight a troll and after that she gets kidnapped by Artemis Fowl when she in completing the Ritual.Holly finds a acorn in her boot which she uses to restore her magic.The LEP sent in a troll to scare Artemis, Butler, and Juliet.After the troll fails the LEP send in one ton of gold in exchange for Holly. Then the LEP blue rinse Fowl Manor in an attempt to kill Artemis, Butler, and Juliet.
ReplyDeleteBook:Sluggers #5 Clayton Manchac
ReplyDeleteSluggers #5 is about a 9 man baseball team and also three kids named Griffith, Graham, and Ruby, there is also a magic baseball. The story starts with Griffith, and Dog and Woody from the baseball team, in a forest with the chancellor's men around them.(The chancellor is mean guy). They manage to get out of the forest and go to the city. They find a university, so they thought they could go get food, water, and a little bit of money to buy train tickets. Meanwhile everyone else is on the train, and worried sick.
The book i am reading is " The Kind of Friends We Used to Be" written by Frances O'roark Dowell. This book starts of with kate. She is a girl that loves playing the guitar. Also there is Marylin, she loves cheerleading. This book is not a ture story but they make it seem ture. That was my summarizing.
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naruto woke up really late and was the only one at the house and he had to rush to get to master kakashi, sasuke, and sakrua. konuhamaru had his back to the wall with his mother the bad guys thretend to kill konuhamru mother. konuhamaru did not want his mom to die like his dad. sudenley naruto came and killed the to robbers with shikan then konuhamuru asked naruto how he fond them naruto saidhe saw a spesialy cut pig
ReplyDeleteI am reading Texas Rangers.they have hit the most home runs in one game.They used to be called the washington senatorrs.The Rangers were the best team in AL.The Rangers started using numbers on the front and back of there jersey.
ReplyDeletei am reding a my wierd school book, A.J. doose not like his school there is a student teacher she never realy pays attension to the class. and the teacher can't fire her beacuse the school prinsable (Mr.Klutz) hird her beacuse she is his daghter, and the teacher loves his job so much he dose not want to get fired by fireing Mr.Klutz's daghter but at the and she quit and the teacher was so happy.
ReplyDeletePeter and the star cachers.molly was going to the train but a bobby said what madem he ran to her and grabbed her by the arm and right when he did that she know that she coudent let him hold her their so she kicked him in the stomimick and got on the train and when the train sarted to move she looked back at the man and wached him go by as the train left the stastin
ReplyDeletegeronimo stilton the christmas toy factory is when it was christmaswhen geronimo was working in his office late then he fell a sleep.then BOOMa elf slamto geronimos windo then the elfwent to the chimny and fell on the ground.the elf took him to the santa factory but santa was sick so geronimo help santa do his work so they were both happy.
ReplyDeleteI am reading sluggers :horsi'n around by loren long and phil biloner. the summery that i will summerize is...
ReplyDeleteIts 1899 and the travlin nine are barnstorming thier way across the U.S.A. trying to raise money to pay of the payne familys big- league debt. As the team heads into river city, Griffith is beginning to realize that there is more at risk than meets the eye, and it could put his entire family in danger. the travlin nine are up againts a realy good team, the lousville summer sluggers.
naruto volume 3 . by mashi kimoto. naruto, sasuke,and sakura wer in the foest with kakashi sensi lernig to climb trees with no hands sakura climbs the tree first and surpass naruto and sasuke naruto trase somuch then never makes it then he cheats then sasuke is jellos
ReplyDeleteThe book I am reading is around the reading workshop in 180 days by Frank Serafini. This book is designed to help teachers better learn about reading workshops. This study will take several weeks and there will be many discussions between other teachers about their progress and what they think about the book.
ReplyDeleteThe book that im reading is Franny.K The madscientist by jim belten and 박수현<ㅡ (korean name). For the summary there was a silly mad scientist called Franny. She couldn't handdle a test only when she test herself.so she made a dog name egore.Egore did lots of test but he didnt know lots of things so when he do something Franny was scared. Someday she thought of bad people steal her things so she made the end bomb.(When this bomb pops half of the Earth will be gone).But Egore wa still playing.So she made an television for him and something was wrong.. Egore said theres ailen was attackig.So Franny wake up and put the bomb where Egore was eating grape.When she look at her telescope and come back she said it was real?And then she found out it was a movie. She was mad at him and she almost faint THE BOMB WAS GONE!
ReplyDeleteI am read ing sluggers game 2 by Phill Blinder one day 3 kids receive a letter its there uncle owen. (there uncle) the note said your grandpa is missing in action. So they go out on an adventure watching there moms baseball team the traveling nine and trying to find who killed there uncle owen. Along the way they meet thugs called the chanselor. The longer you read the more action packed it gets.
ReplyDeleteI am reading allie finkles rules for girls the moving day.Allie is in a fight with her best friend mary kay she CRYS about everthing and Allie is moving away so Mary Kay wont stop crying.So when she got home her mom said if you are helping out around the house you will get a kitten Allie thinks in her head my own cat!how did she i have always wanted a cat.So dont know whats going to happen next i'm really jumpie I WANNA KNOW!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI am reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rolowling.
ReplyDeleteHarry is a very brave wizard.He would fight anything that would hurt people that he cares about.He will fight anything that will get in his way to defeting evil. When the ministry of magic invades Hogwarts school of Witch Craft and Wizardry,Harry and his friends try to take the school back and do what their supposed to do. When Harry has a vision that his godfather (Surius Black) was captured by the Dark Lord (Voldomort),he races to his side to help.
In the book Sidekicks captain amazing is so bussy that he dosen't have time for his pet's.He announces auditions for sidekicks and his pet's want to be his sidekicks.But captian amazing's worst enemie Dr.Havoc is released from jail.the pet's superhero names are Metal Mutt,Fluffy,the Chameleon,and Static cat.the four animals try to fight crimes and muggers.
ReplyDeleteeleven by lauren myracle.winnie is a eleven year old girl and she is going through alot of things each mounth.and her best freind is already changing just through one year. like her best freind has a new best freind and her best freind is really mean to winnie and all she cares about is her self
ReplyDeletegotten a letter from unkel owen that said baware of the chanchler he mussint learn of the baceball(the bace ballis magical)they wer walking down the streets and swer he saw man look over rutheys sholder and read what she was writting he had a navy sut on and a pink skuare pocket he though thats what the chanclers workers he though he was imanging it.
ReplyDeleteThe book I am reading is Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls. It is about a boy that has always wanted two red bone hounds. He had to work two years to get them. He goes hunting for raccons with his dogs every night. The book is about his adventures with his dogs.
ReplyDeleteThe book i am reading is Who Was Harry Houdini By Trui T. Sutherland.It is a true story.This story tells you about Houdini`s life when he was a boy he moved from place to place and when he was i think nine he ran away from home to earn more money for his family.Then when he was older he and his younger brother made a group called the Houdini Brothers and when his brother messed up a magic trick he started to work alone and then he fell in love with a women named Beatrice Raymond she was also a magician working with her sister.After they were married they started to work together as an act.Beatrice was the asistant and harry was the magician.
ReplyDeleteCrazy Nicole Auer
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Author:Katherine H
Ida B uses her imagination alot. She likes to go to the Brook, and talk to trees. Some bad things started to happen in Ida B life.She feels like her heart is getting smaller,and smaller, because her life starts to change.
The book I am currently reading is Who Was Harry Houdini By Tui T. Sutherland. It is a true story and it tells about Harry`s life. When Harry was a child he ran away from home and tried to earn more money for his dear family. When he was older he and his brother made a group. Then he met a women named Beatrice and he fell in love with her and they got married almost two weeks after they met. They started to work together and Beatrice was the assistant and Harry was the magician.
ReplyDeleteThe book I am currently reading is Who Was Harry Houdini By Tui T. Sutherland. It is a true story and it tells about Harry`s life. When Harry was a child he ran away from home and tried to earn more money for his dear family. When he was older he and his brother made a group. Then he met a women named Beatrice and he fell in love with her and they got married almost two weeks after they met. They started to work together and Beatrice was the assistant and Harry was the magician.
ReplyDeleteI am reading Judy Moody Predicts the Future by Megan McDonald. Judy Moody gets a mood ring in a cereal box. Then her brother Stink steals it, and she’ll do anything for him to give it back. She tries to prove that she is a real psychic so Stink can give her the ring back. He says that only people with magic powers should have a mood ring. Stink gives it back, and Judy Moody wants it to turn purple because purple means joyful on the top of the world. So she goes to the library and looks at books about people predicting the future.
ReplyDeleteThe book that I'm reading is called"The Wlid, wild west" by Geronimo Stilton. One day, Geronimo goes to the west with his family. And he goes to Cactus City, where needy people buys water. Geronimo gets furius, and take care of those people. But it turns out that it was just a dream!
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ReplyDeleteI am reading Clue Who Killed Mr.Boddy by A.E. Parker.The book is about Mr.Boddy is killed at his manchion .The suspects are Colonel Mustard,Ms.Scarlet,Mr.Green,Mrs.White,Mrs.Peacock.They are trying to figure out who killed Mr.Boddy .Mistakenly he was alive Mr.Boddy was just unconscious.