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ACTIVITY 2.7
Interacting in Meaningful Ways: Writing and Presenting a Summary
Learning Targets
• Write and present a summary of a text, selecting appropriate language resources to condense ideas. PI.7.9, PI.7.10b, PI.7.12
• Plan and deliver a brief presentation. PI.7.9
A summary is a brief explanation of a text. Review your annotations and notes on “The Nobel Peace Prize 1993” and use them to complete the graphic organizer so you can create your own summary of the unit text.
Paragraph
significant Details
summary
Which details in the paragraph do you want to include in your summary?
Write a summary of each paragraph.
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-born 1918
-father chief of Tembu Tribe
-studied law until 1942
-joined African National Congress in 1944
-charged with treason for fighting against apartheid
-acquitted in 1961
Nelson Mandela was born
in 1918, and his father was the chief of the Tembu Tribe. Mandela studied law until 1942 and then joined the African National Congress in 1944. Mandela was charged with treason for fighting against the government’s apartheid policies, but he was acquitted in 1961.
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Quick Conversation
Share your work with your partner. Compare your summaries of each paragraph. Discuss whether you agree with your partner’s summaries and why. Record notes from your discussion.
I think this summary .
I think this detail should be included because .
I think you could leave this detail out of the summary because .
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I think you could condense the details and by .
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