May 8, 2025 - Lesson #2: Summary Writing - Natural Disasters
Specific Expectations
- Demonstrate the ability to read independently for personal, school-related, and career-related purposes
- Describe, orally and/or in writing, person- ally relevant texts they have read and their responses to them
- Explain the purposes and uses of a summary
- Construct summaries that clearly state the main idea and include important supporting details
- To read an informational text and identify the main ideas and supporting details
- Respond to the text by sharing your opinions and knowledge of natural disasters
- Understand what a summary is, why they are used and their key elements
- Write a simple summary of today’s article
A summary is a short overview of the main points of a text. The purpose of a summary is to quickly give the reader or listener an idea of what this material is saying.
Things to Consider When Writing a Summary
Killer Fog | National Geographic
The Mystery of Tunguska Event
The Lake Nyos Disaster - Africa's Killer Lake - A Short Documentary
Upload here the final summary: Google Doc link AND pdf.
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