Objective Summary

Check for Understanding:

What is our learning objective for today?

Check all that apply:

• Identify the central idea in an informational text and the important details that support the idea. Summarize an informational text by restating in one’s own words the central idea and important details.

• Provide an accurate and objective summary free of personal opinions or judgments.

Check for Understanding:

Which sentence is written objectively.

Check all that apply:

• Barack Obama is the first black President of the United States of America.

• When Obama became President, it was the biggest and most important election in the history of our country.

• Barack Obama graduated from Harvard University, the best college in America.

• Barack Obama was the 44th President of the United States of America.

Define Central Idea.

• A clash between two opposing forces in text.

• What the text is about.

• The highest or most intense point in a narrative.

• The beginning of the story where the characters and setting are introduced.

A text may have more than one central idea and that each paragraph or section has its own central idea.

True or False

• True

• False

Your summary should only include main ideas and key points, not supporting details.

True or False

• True

• False

A summary is free of ________ or personal beliefs.

A summary should also be ______, or free of any opinions or personal beliefs.

• Opinions

• Obvious

• Opinionated

• Objective

Your summary should be________.

Check all that apply:

• Should be a complete sentence or two.

• Should cover main point and key ideas.

• Should be in your own words.

• Should just be a word or two.