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1 DO NOW Please complete the “Writing Meaningful Sentences” section in today’s packet. A meaningful sentence uses the vocabulary term correctly in a complete sentence. VOCAB QUIZ TOMORROW!

2 Summarizing Putting the main idea in your own words.
Characteristics of a Summary: short tells what is most important written "in your own words"

3 Her stepmother wouldn’t let her
Somebody Wanted But So Who are the main people in the poem? What did these people want? What problem happened to prevent them from getting what they wanted? How did the problem get solved? Did they get what they wanted? Or did something else happen? THEN Somebody Wanted But So Who are the main people in the poem? What did these people want? What problem happened to prevent them from getting what they wanted? How did the problem get solved? Did they get what they wanted? Or did something else happen? Cinderella Wanted to go to the ball Her stepmother wouldn’t let her She stayed at home to clean and dreamed about what it would be like to attend a ball THEN Cinderella’s Fairy Godmother Wanted to grant Cinderella her wish to attend the ball The wish could only last until midnight Cinderella danced all night but turned back into her ordinary self at the stroke of 12.

4 Somebody Wanted But So Somebody Wanted But So
Who are the main people in the poem? What did these people want? What problem happened to prevent them from getting what they wanted? How did the problem get solved? Did they get what they wanted? Or did something else happen? THEN Somebody Wanted But So Who are the main people in the poem? What did these people want? What problem happened to prevent them from getting what they wanted? How did the problem get solved? Did they get what they wanted? Or did something else happen? THEN

5 Paraphrasing Putting the author’s original ideas in your own words
Characteristics of a Paraphrase: clarify a message usually longer than the original text written "in your own words"

6 “O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore
art thou Romeo? / Deny thy father and refuse thy name!” – Juliet Romeo, where are you? I wish you were here to answer me! Oh Romeo, why does your name have to be Romeo? Why must you be a Montague? Forget about your family and your name! Romeo! Ask your farther to end the feud and if he won’t, then leave his house.

7 “But, soft. what light through. yonder window breaks. / It is
“But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? / It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.” – Romeo a) Wow! The light is blinding in that window over there! b) Hey, what light is that in the window above me? It’s Juliet’s window and she is as beautiful as a sunrise. c) Love is just like sunlight shining through a window.

8 “Nothing Gold Can Stay”
By Robert Frost (1)   Nature’s first green is gold,  (2)   Her hardest hue to hold.  (3)   Her early leaf’s a flower;  (4)   But only so an hour.  (5)   Then leaf subsides to leaf.  (6)   So Eden sank to grief,  (7)   So dawn goes down to day.  (8)   Nothing gold can stay. 

9 “The Night Has A Thousand Eyes” By Francis William Bourdillon
And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying of the sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.

10 “Oranges” By Gary Soto

11 Create Your Own!


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