Week 8 IEW-Reports

Students read their Borrowing a Conflict paper.

Today we are going to start  Unit 4 on Summarizing or Report writing. In the beginning of the year,  we started writing our KWO sentence by sentence, choosing three words. We will not be doing that again for the rest of the year. In this Unit, we are going to be writing key words based on facts, not sentences. We will take what we think is important or interesting. We can't take everything, so we need to make some decisions about what to include.

Our mission is to write 1-3 paragraphs on a topic, include a topic sentence, a clincher and dress-ups. A source is provided for you in our USHBW book on pg. 104 Lesson 14: Colonial Life: Church,  or you may choose your own topic.

Please also reference the summarizing outline guideline in TWSS Unit 4 and/or USHBW Lesson 14.

We have been using our clincher sentence to come up with our title. Now we are going to learn about topic sentences and clinchers. A topic sentence tells the audience what the paragraph will be about.  Your clincher sentence reflects the topic sentence without repeating it exactly. It reminds the audience what the paragraph was about.

Let's take a look at this in action. Please turn to page 102 in your USHBW book. We will read this selection and pick out the key words from the topic sentence that are reflected in the clincher.

Now we will try one on our own.
Use source text (pg. 104 USHBW) to create a KWO with the class. Begin writing paragraph and review Topic/Clincher skill.

Please remember to include the dress ups we have learned in your report. A checklist is provided on pg. 107. First years feel free to complete one paragraph. Second and third years please challenge yourselves by completing 2-3 paragraphs.