3.3-W7- Pg 26

3.3-W7

ReaL Book Pg#26

Summarizing

• When you summarize a text, you briefly describe the most important ideas in your own words.

•  A summary starts by stating the central idea, or what the text is mostly about. 

• It supports the central idea with the most important, or relevant, details from the text

• It does not include judgments or personal opinions.

• It finishes with a final thought or interesting detail.

Multiple Choice

Which sentence below is a final thought or interesting detail?

• It remained lost for many years.

• Goddio’s team had located the lost city and its many relics.

• In 2000, technology helped scientists locate an ancient city that had been submerged in water for thousands of years.

Multiple Choice

Which Sentence below is the main/ central idea?

• In 2000, technology helped scientists locate an ancient city that had been submerged in water for thousands of years.

• In 1999, archaeologist Franck Goddio and a team of divers headed to the bay.

• Thonis-Heracleion was a thriving Egyptian port city until a natural disaster caused it to sink into the Abu Qir Bay.

• Then in 1933, a pilot flying over the bay spotted its ruins.

• Different explorers searched the bay, but the city remained lost for 67 more years.

Multiple Select

Which sentence is below is NOT a strong supporting detail?

• Thonis-Heracleion was a thriving Egyptian port city until a natural disaster caused it to sink into the Abu Qir Bay

• They used sonar and satellite technology to map the sea floor.

• The next year, the divers found rock from a 17-foottall statue that had guarded a great temple

• It remained lost for many years.

• The maps helped them identify sites where ruins might be located.