Starting Esperanza Rising and Writing Objective Summaries

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.

Today's Agenda:

1. Entrance Question in the Chat: What is one thing you do to make yourself feel better when 
2. Social Contract Question #3: When we are facing difficult situations in Language Arts class, what are the strategies that will help us to solve the problem or get support?
3. Read Esperanza Rising Chapter One: "Las Uvas"
4. Objective Summaries!
5. Catch Up Time!

End of Class Checklist (Did I finish these things?):

• Daily Exit Form
• Read Esperanza Rising Chapter 1: "Las Uvas"
• Watch the screencast about "Objective Summaries"
• Write my 3 sentence summary of "Las Uvas"
  
• Make sure your previous assignments are done (R.A. Practice and "The Fun They Had" RACE Paragraph)

HOMEWORK INVOLVING YOUR GROWNUPS:

• Please ask your grown ups if they did the homework I asked them to complete last Friday. I sent them an email through Canvas, so if they didn't get the email, they can check the Canvas inbox. (YES I gave your grownups homework. It was to fill out this form. Can you ask them if they got my emails?)
• You AND your grownups also got an email last night through Canvas asking you about 

Social Contract Question #3

So far we have answered the following together:

1. What can Ms. Black do this year to show that she respects you and everyone in the classroom?
2. What can YOU do to show Ms. Black and your peers respect in the classroom?

Today we do our last question!

• When we are facing difficult situations in Language Arts class, what are the strategies that will help us to solve the problem or get support?

"Difficult Situations" could mean:

• "I'm very confused"
• "I don't know where to go"
• "Technology hates me today"
• "I couldn't hear the directions"
• "My sibling was being really loud and I got distracted"
• "We are trying to work together but ___ is happening"
• "I didn't do very well on this assignment and I want to do better"
• "I didn't have enough time to complete my work today"
• AND SO MANY OTHER THINGS.

Esperanza Rising

We're going to start a book today! You haven't gone to the library to check the book out, but that's okay, we have a copy for you. You will find a link 

If you want to get a book from school, please make sure you talk to your grownups about the homework listed above OR on the "end of class checklist page" in Modules. I sent you a message in Canvas yesterday afternoon.

Prologue:

"Las Uvas" (Chapter One): 

Summarizing

The only thing you have to do for writing practice today is write an OBJECTIVE summary. You have done summarizing before in your life. I guarantee you have. Remember when you watched an episode of a show and your friend asked you to tell them what happened? Remember when you got home from school and your grownups asked you what you did that day at school? Or how about the time when you explained your favorite tiktok video to your bestie? We have all summarized before.

What is the difference between a summary and a RACE Paragraph?

A RACE Paragraph:

• Answers a question
• Uses a quote from the text
• involves explaining what it means (this is called analysis)

An Objective Summary:

• tells the most important things that happened
• does NOT include personal opinions
• is specific, but doesn't explain every single thing that happened (try to identify the KEY things that happened, maybe 3 or 4 things)

Think of it like a list: First, ____. Then, _________. After that, ________. Finally, _______

That is one way of writing a summary. There are LOTS of ways of writing a summary, but the goal is to only explain the most important things that happened and to avoid sharing your opinion.

YOUR ASSIGNMENT:
You will write a summary of "Las Uvas". It should be 3-5 sentences because you want to make sure to be specific, but you also want to make sure not to explain absolutely every little detail. 

You will find the assignment in Canvas. 

Here's a good sentence starter to put at the beginning of your summary: 

In Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan, the first chapter, "Las Uvas", begins in 1930 when __________________. 

We will have more time at the end of class after this. You should use it to go back and make sure that your R.A. Discussion questions are submitted, and that your RACE paragraph from last class is submitted and complete.