NEST Day 6: Focused Notes Writing a Summary

 Review Focused Notes steps  Use a Thinking Map to plan for summary  Use transitions for our writing  Finish writing the summary by adding supporting details Today’s Goals

Focused Notes are MANY things…  A way to collect information in class  A way to interact with the information you learned (today’s focus)  A way to collaborate with peers  A tool to help you study information What are Focused Notes?

 These past few days we…  Learned to format Focused Notes  Wrote an essential question  Learned notetaking tips  Learned about levels of inquiry  Wrote questions for our notes (2 nd way we review our notes)  Used the essential question write a topic sentence for our summary Let’s Review

 When writing a summary, we needed to focus on two things… 1. focus on answering the essential question  Briefly review the essential question (what is it?) 2.identify the main ideas and details in your notes  Review your notes  Identify the main ideas (what are they?)  HINT: look at how you’ve organized your notes, the main ideas are easily identified if you’ve skipped lines and use capital letters Writing a Summary

1.Introductory Sentences (2 sentences)  Topic sentence + 1 other intro sentence for the reader 2.Supporting Details (# is determined by your notes)  Provides details from the notes that answer the EQ  Connected by TRANSITIONS 3.Closing Sentences (1 sentence)  Restates the topic of your summary in a new way and provides a closing thought Remember the Parts of a Summary

Parts of a Summary

 Now that we have our INTRODUCTORY SENTENCES, let’s ORGANIZE the supporting details for our summary paragraph Writing a Summary

 To get our details, look at your notes and identify the main ideas by how you organized them in your notes Writing a Summary

As a class, work together to complete the Thinking Map There are several important school wide policies and procedures that affect students. (+1 more introductory sentence) Notes Topic #1 Notes Topic #2 Notes Topic #3 Closing Sentence (1)

As a class, work together to complete the Thinking Map There are several important school wide policies and procedures that affect students. (+1 more introductory sentence) Notes Topic #1 Notes Topic #2 Notes Topic #3 Closing Sentence (1) NOW as a class, think of 2 details that explain or elaborate on each of the main ideas (school website, academic timeline, and NEST) taking care to focus on answering the EQ. Write these as bullets beneath the main ideas.

There are several important school wide policies and procedures that affect students. (+1 more introductory sentence) Notes Topic #1 Notes Topic #2 NEST Closing Sentence (1) Detail #1 Detail #2 Detail #1 Detail #2 Detail #1 Detail #2 After adding the details, now think of transitions you could use to connect the main topics together.

There are several important school wide policies and procedures that affect students. (+1 more introductory sentence) Notes Topic #1 Notes Topic #2 NEST Closing Sentence (1) After adding transitions, now add your final closing sentence. This is a restatement of the topic sentence, but in a new and thoughtful way.

 Reviewed Focused Notes steps  Used a Thinking Map to plan the summary  Used transitions for our writing  Finished writing the summary by adding supporting details ( 3 rd way we review our notes ) NEXT TIME we will…  Use our notes as a study tool Today’s Goals