1. How to write a summary

2.  1. a short clip  2. Introduction on how to write a summary  3. Read aloud!  4. Summary practice  5. quotable quotes 2015/11/232011--Alice Y. Chang 2

3.  Carol Dweck: The power of believing that you can improve  http://www.ted.com/playlists/225/talks_t o_get_you_through_your http://www.ted.com/playlists/225/talks_t o_get_you_through_your

4.  Reference 1: http://www.enotes.com/topics/how- write-summary#.VOxDUie-68Y.facebook http://www.enotes.com/topics/how- write-summary#.VOxDUie-68Y.facebook  Reference 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGW O1ldEhtQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGW O1ldEhtQ

5.  1. include all the main points  2. as brief as possible  concise  3. paraphrase  using your own words  4. objective  5. basic structure of one paragraph summary: Topic sentence Supporting detail (1) Supporting detail (2) Supporting detail (3) conclusion

6. Weekly journal

7.  “When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.”  — from Walden, Or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau