Day 5: Summarizing

1. Test your ability to recognize a summary HERE. Answers HERE.
2. Read: "How to Do One Thing at a Time" (11). Underline the parts of the reading that correspond to the different parts of  the professor's summary and connect them with arrows.
3. In your group, summarize "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" (8) in a MSWord document. 
4. Once you are satisfied with the summary, paste it HERE.  See everyone's answers HERE.
5. In MSWord, type a brief reflection of what you have learned about summary that answers the following questions. 

• What did you get from thinking about summary with the class?

• What did you get from writing a summary for "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" with your group?

• What did you learn about the summary by summarizing "Is Google Making Us Stupid?"?

• How may summarizing make you a better writer?

     6. Paste the reflection as a COMMENT to this Day 5 post.


HOMEWORK

1. Write Blog 1: Summary of "I Know the Truth, so Don't Bother Me with Facts" (9).
2. Watch a video version of "The Allegory of the Cave" HERE.