Summarize for your Introduction, Conclusion Paragraphs - 14 November and 15 November 2019

Today's Goal:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.2
Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.

The Plan:

1. Read
2. Hatchet Summary
3. Hatchet Essay time to complete Introduction and Conclusion paragraphs

Reminders/Homework:

• READ a book!
• Finish your COMPLETE DRAFT (all four paragraphs) of your essay in Google Classroom by next class.
• CLICK HERE for the overall essay guidelines. 
• FINAL DRAFT: Due Friday, 22 November, 4pm
• Typing.com INTERMEDIATE #1-4
• Due Friday, 15 November 4pm
• No Red Ink Diagnostic #2
• Due Friday, 22 November 4pm

Hatchet Summary

You will need a sticky note and a collaborative attitude for this activity.

You will work with a group (your group might change) to write the best possible two-three sentence summary of Hatchet that you can.

This is sort of what your paper will visually look like when
you're done with the summary activity.

Here are the steps:

1. On your sticky note, write a two-sentence summary of Hatchet. Seriously. two sentences. Write small, and write ONLY what is needed to understand the story. Think about it before you write it, because you only get the one shot.
2. Read your summary to your group. Together, combine forces to create one NEW summary that can be two or three sentences. Pick the best words and the most clear information

HINT: Your summary should start with one of two things:

• In the novel, Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen, Brian Robeson is ________
• The novel, Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen, is about ________

Hatchet Introduction

You can use these sentence frames (also found on Google Classroom) to help you.

Your introduction has exactly two things, in exactly this order:

1. An introduction/brief summary of Hatchet
2. Your thesis statement

Hatchet Conclusion

You can use these sentence frames (also found on Google Classroom) to help you.

The entire purpose of a conclusion paragraph is to sum up the essay and to answer the question: So what? Why does it any of it matter at all?

If you aren't sure, you're going to have to discuss it with some people to figure it out, but here are some ideas for your ending (Pick one).

• Explain why the character change, the way that Brian became, is important in the real world.
• Explain why Brian's character change is important to HIM even after he leaves the wilderness. You have to connect it to things that are not related to surviving in the wilderness, though. You might talk about what he talks about in the epilogue

I don't want to tell you how to end your essay, but I do want to tell you that you need to come up with a reason that this change matters, and who it matters to. It could matter to Brian, it could matter to all people, and it could matter to specific kinds of people. You have to decide, and you have to decide why and SAY it.