You have two written pieces due Friday next week.
Both of these should be on your personal wiki page.If you would like me to read your summary, please message me from the wiki. Messaging is located at the very top right of the wiki page.
The skills and purpose are the same for both: you want someone to read your book/short story. In order to do this you must hook their attention, summarize the basics, and leave us wanting to read the full piece.
However, each is written at a different time. The book review summary is written after the book is finished. How else do you know the big picture?
The short story summary is written before the story is written. How? Well, as the writer, you have planned out the complete story including the setting, plot, characters, theme, and know exactly how the story will end. When the story is planned, it can then be written.
Book Review: Hook/Summary
Hook (see list)
Setting
Plot summary
Characters
Theme
Did not give away
the end (but you know it)
Short Story: Hook/Summary
Theme: The world would be a better
place if…
Hook
Setting
Plot summary
Characters
Theme
Did not give away
the end (but you know it)
Skills:
1. Complex
sentence structure: The summary is dense with detail yet short.
2. Word
choice: use the best words not more
words
3.
Determine
a theme or central idea of a text
and analyze its development over the
course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and
plot; provide an objective summary of the text
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the
nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. Long
ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the
surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in
an annual televised event called, "The Hunger Games," a fight to the
death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her
mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to
represent her district in the Games. The terrain, rules, and level of audience
participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed.
