With Friends Like These....

With Friends Like These....

by Sam Gomez

With friends like these ... | Relationships | The Guardian

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Poll

Do you have a best friend?

• Yes

• No

Open Ended

What makes a friend friend?

What qualities and characteristics?

​Essential Question:

How do we form and maintain our connections with others?​

​Objective:

​We will be able to distinguish and practice summarizing and paraphrasing.

Open Ended

Summarize your favorite movie in 20 words.

Marty travels in time. Changes his future by changing the past. Doc lives in the process. =16 words

​Summarizing is...

​Paraphrasing is:

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We value friends, but the path of friendship, like love, rarely runs smooth. We may feel jealous of a friend’s achievements when we want to feel happy for her. We might find it hard to give friends objective advice, unrelated to the person we want them to be. We can be reluctant to allow each other to change, sometimes falling out in a way that is painful for all involved. And yet, friendships are vitally important; central to our enjoyment of life.

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More fundamentally, friendships are essential to our sense of who we are. Neuroscientists have shown that our brain does not reveal to us the world as it is, but rather as possible interpretations of what is going on around us, drawn from our past experience. Since no two people ever have exactly the same experience, no two people ever see anything in exactly the same way.

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Most of our brain’s constructions are unconscious. Early in our life our stream of conscious and unconscious constructions create, like a real stream, a kind of whirlpool that quickly becomes our most precious possession, that is, our sense of being a person, what we call “I,” “me,” “myself.” Like a whirlpool, our sense of being a person cannot exist separately from the stream that created it.

Poll

Do you understand the difference between summarizing and paraphrasing?

• simon limon

• nola zola

• mas o menos manny

Open Ended

Write a summary of the article we have read using only 45 words.