Summarizing Documents

This week while some of your classmates are finishing up testing, we will learn a little more about how to summarize a document. Going over your papers, I realize that we need to work on strategies for putting information in your own words. Here is a link to a document we will be summarizing together in class Tuesday May 17.

Abraham Lincoln Biography

After we work on this together, we will work through a variety of other documents with a partner.

Your papers (final drafts) will be due this week. I want to give you one more day in the classroom to finish your final drafts. The papers will be due AT THE END OF CLASS ON THIS THURSDAY. Please plan accordingly. The testing should be over by then, and this will give you time to finish typing in class on Thursday. We might have some time to work on editing on Wednesday of this week, so make sure you are carrying around your rough draft with you (once I give it back!) so you can work on it at any available opportunity.

Thanks!