ESL 71 Tuesday Feb 18 Prewriting Summarize Synthesize
ESL 71 Tuesday, Feb 18
Prewriting Summarize Synthesize
Prewriting – During this stage, you brainstorm ideas, determine your audience and purpose for writing. Possibly do some beginning research Summarize – Take information and make it shorter in your own words highlighting the most important information Synthesize – Take information from various sources and blend it together to come to a conclusion.
What does synthesizing mean? ?
Look for the main ideas. Restate sentences in your own words. facts Examples statistics Quotations and expert opinions Anecdotes (brief stories about real people Explain where sources agree with OR differs from the others on a topic or idea Try and relate the writer’s message to other material you’ve read. combining information = SYNTHESIZING speeches editorials Write a report Create a presentation Write a letter MAKING CONNECTIONS: Is the writer expressing the same ideas you found in another article, book, poem or story?
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Title of Article: � What is the author’s message? Importance of Bilingualism and its challenges. � What supporting evidence is provided? Story about child resisting speaking Spanish in public � Compare and Contrast: Title of Article: � What is the author’s message? Bilingualism delays/prevents onset of dementia and maybe Alzheimer's. � What supporting evidence is provided? 648 – 391 bilingual advantage delayed dementia One additional language provides the benefit Title of Article: � Bilingual miscommunication � � Compare and Contrast: Monolingual/bilingual � Start from scratch Baby City Animal Sounds Make connections: SYNTHESIZE THESE ARTICLES (PUT IT ALL TOGETHER) • Report, Editorial, Speech, or Letter � Compare and Contrast: Funny bilingual stories Make connections: Importance of early language learning could delay dementia ? 3 year old daughter didn’t want to Brain benefit use Spanish � What supporting evidence is provided? I guess so Fear of black people Embarrassment of speaking Spain in public. What is the author’s message? � Make connections: Connection with Bilingual challenges podcast -
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1. Write your topic sentence
2. Evidence – Summarizing, Quoting
3. Evidence
4. Evidence
5. Synthesize
6. Conclusion
• “Double Daddy” • from The Denver Post, September 5, 1999 • Author: Penny Parker • “Diary of a Mad Blender” -A week of managing Every spare Minute • from The Wall Street Journal, March 22, 2000 • Author: Sue Shellenbarger • “The Child’s View of Working Parents” • from Fortune, November 8, 1999
Title of Article: “Double Daddy” “Diary of a Mad Blender” Title of Article: p. 24 -25 p. 22 -23 p. 26 -27 “The Child’s View of Working Parents” � What is the author’s message? � What supporting evidence is provided? � Compare and Contrast: � Make connections: SYNTHESIZE THESE ARTICLES (PUT IT ALL TOGETHER) Report, Editorial, Speech, or Letter Synthesize three articles you have read by writing your own 1 page article or editorial about the problems of balancing work and family life. Support your opinions or ideas by paraphrasing the articles, and make sure to acknowledge the source. Draw on other sources (such as Finney’s story and Koch’s poem) and on your own experiences. You may also want to interview your parents for their point of view and synthesize this information, including it in your article
• Your 1 st paragraph= • include your thesis statement • Body paragraphs = • use the information you listed in compare and contrast and in your making connections sections • Conclusion = • making connections, repeated thesis in fresh voice
Sample opinion/thesis statements � Balancing work and home life can be challenging in today’s modern world…. . � Long hours at work often mean fewer hours spend at home, as a result… � Then tell me why you feel this way �…. in homes where both mom and dad work, parents often feel stressed about finding enough time to spend with their children at the end of a long work day. �…long hours at work also create added stress in families where multiple children often have multiple schedules throughout the workday.
� Balancing work and home life can be challenging in today’s modern world because long hours at work often mean fewer hours spent at home. In homes where both mom and dad work, parents often feel stressed about finding enough time to spend with their children at the end of a long work day. Two working parents also creates added stress in families where multiple children often have multiple schedules throughout the workday. � Based on this paragraph, can you guess what ideas I must further explain in my 2 nd and 3 rd paragraph? Keeping in mind that you are SYNTHESIZING the sources that you’ve covered…what connection must I make in these paragraphs? � � What stories have we read that I can use as evidence to support my opinion? In 2 nd paragraph: With two working parents, it tough to find enough hours at the end of the day to help kids with homework, make dinner, and spend family time together. � “Double Daddy” � Personal story (anecdote) In 3 rd paragraph: � “Diary of a Mad Blender” ‘A Week Managing Every Spare Minute’
� Restate your opinion in a fresh way � In our busy lives today, its important that individual find partners that are complement them well. Having children can definitely add extra stress to our already hectic lives. In home with working parents, its important that both people work together to manage time and meet the needs of our busy lives and busy children. � Offer � In an idea or call of action addition to date nights, parents should schedule a once-amonth family outing or movie and popcorn night at home.
• This is response addresses only part of the prompt. • It does not include any supporting details from the articles covered. • This response would most likely receive a score of zero or 1 on the CAHSEE as a result of this crucial oversight.
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