1. Paraphrasing
The art of putting information into your own words

2. What do you mean “my own words”?NO
Can I just take out a couple words? NO
Can I just change a couple words? NO
Can I just rearrange a couple words?

3. Do Do not Paraphrasing is CREATING—not just CHANGING.
Read and understand the information.
Identify the main idea.
Reword terms with synonyms.
Create new sentences.
Keep the main idea.
Do not
Change a couple things and call it your own.
Paraphrasing is CREATING—not just CHANGING.

4. Partner Paraphrase
Partner # 1: In 60 seconds, tell your partner what you did this weekend.
Partner #2:
As you listen, write down keywords you notice from this weekend summary.
Think to yourself: What do I remember?
In two sentences, paraphrase what your partner just said.

5. Partner Paraphrase
Partner # 1: In 60 seconds, tell your partner how your family celebrates a major holiday.
Partner #2:
Think to yourself: What do I remember?
As you listen, write down keywords you notice from this holiday summary.
In two sentences, paraphrase what your partner just said.

6. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men, couldn’t put humpty back together again.
While sitting on a wall, an egg had an accident which resulted in tragedy because no one in the kingdom could repair him.

7. Eating her curds and whey. Along came a spider,
Little Miss Muffet
Sat on a tuffet,
Eating her curds and whey.
Along came a spider,
Who sat down beside her,
And frightened Miss Muffet away!
A little girl was eating her food, but she ran away when a spider came and scared her.

8. Please don’t take my sunshine away.
You are my sunshine
My only sunshine
You make me happy
When skies are gray
You’ll never know dear
How much I love you
Please don’t take my sunshine away.
You bring me great joy even during my toughest times. You mean so much to me…sniff…sniff…and…sniff, sniff…don’t ever change.

9. Okay, now we have to get serious.
Let’s use our skills to look at historical text.

10. The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state- sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. "Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community.
*Persecution – Hostility or harassment based on race, or political, or religious beliefs.

11. The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. "Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community.
*Persecution – Hostility or harassment based on race, or political, or religious beliefs.
Nazi prejudice during the Holocaust resulted in massive Jewish slaughter.

12. In 1933, the Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million
In 1933, the Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million. Most European Jews lived in countries that Nazi Germany would occupy or influence during World War II. By 1945, the Germans and their collaborators killed nearly two out of every three European Jews as part of the "Final Solution," the Nazi policy to murder the Jews of Europe. Other victims included some 200,000 Roma (Gypsies) and at least 200,000 mentally or physically disabled patients.

13. By 1945, Nazis murdered over six million Jews and thousands of others.
In 1933, the Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million. Most European Jews lived in countries that Nazi Germany would occupy or influence during World War II. By 1945, the Germans and their collaborators killed nearly two out of every three European Jews as part of the "Final Solution," the Nazi policy to murder the Jews of Europe. Other victims included some 200,000 Roma (Gypsies) and at least 200,000 mentally or physically disabled patients.
By 1945, Nazis murdered over six million Jews and thousands of others.

14. The Germans used trains for deportation
The Germans used trains for deportation. They did not provide the deportees with food or water. The people deported in sealed freight cars suffered from intense heat in summer, freezing temperatures in winter, and the stench of urine and excrement. Aside from a bucket, there were no provisions for sanitary requirements. Without food or water, many deportees died before the trains reached their destinations. Armed guards shot anyone trying to escape. Between the fall of 1941 and the fall of 1944, millions of people were transported by rail to the extermination camps.