Creating a Summary

How to write a great summary.

These steps will help you write a great summary for your stories.

Poll

Before this lesson ends, how good are you at writing a summary?

• I'm great!

• I'm okay with a guide

• I need a guide but I don't feel confident with one.

• I still don't know what a summary is!

What is a Summary?

What is your background knowledge about summaries?

Click on the youtube link for a video about writing a summary. Make sure to take notes for later!

https://youtu.be/LYQYqFGnROQ?feature=shared

Key parts of a summary

If you watched the video, it talks about the key pry. Those key parts are:
1. Who
2. What
3. When
4. Where
5. Why

Multiple Choice

If someone asks you where is the party, what does the person want to know?

• The location of the party?

• Who is having the party?

Multiple Choice

Mrs. Nixon asked the class when did they go trick or treating. What does Mrs. Nixon want to know?

• The location to trick or treat.

• Who went trick or treating together?

• Who went trick or treating?

• What time did they go trick or treating?

• Brielle was here hehehe :]

A good look at a summary.

The Montgomery Bus Boycott explains how Rosa Parks decided to violate the laws of segregation, in Montgomery, Alabama. She did not give up her seat to a white person on the bus. Mrs. Parks felt humiliated for having to sit at the back of the bus and decided to take action. After her arrest, for breaking the law, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr helped start the Civil Rights Movement which helped Black people stopped being treated unfairly.

​This is where you discuss the main characters in the story.

​​Who

What did the main characters do? What action did they take and how did that affect them or the story?

​​did What

Where did the action happen? What was the location. This does not always mean a city or state.

​​Where

​What date, year, time, month did the action take place. How long did the action happen?

​​When

• Mrs. Nixon

Now it's your turn.
Re-read the story and write a draft of a summary. It needs to be at least 1 paragraph.