Summarize "The Most Dangerous Game"

Overview

This lesson includes three different strategies students can use to summarize a reading assignment. 

CCSS Standards

CCSS.W.9.4 - Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. 

Learning Targets

Students will summarize a short story using different strategies.

Hook

When summarizing a reading assignment, what essential information should be included?

Description

After reading “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, students will view a PowerPoint featuring three different strategies to summarize text. 

Students will use two of the three strategies and summarize "The Most Dangerous Game".  They must show their pre-writing and final paragraphs and submit it to Canvas in a Word document using MLA format.

Closure

Students will submit their summaries and discuss which strategy they thought was the easiest to use as well as the most difficult.

Assessment

Teachers will use a simple checklist when evaluating paragraphs.  

• Did the student use the strategy correctly? 
• Is all necessary information included in the summary?
• Did the student include pre-writing?
• Did the student use complete sentences and correct punctuation?