Angel Cervantes
Ms.Lehmann
English 1-1A
18 December 2019
Summary
In Nadine Gordimer's short story " Once Upon a Time" the narrator warns about the danger of segregation. After a scare in her home, a reluctant narrator tells herself a " bedtime story". There is a mother, father and a young son. In the beginning, the family insured their home, put up a trespasser warning sign, and put a fence around the pool to keep their sone safe. Then, riots begin to take place in the neighborhood. Now the family installs an electronically controlled gate. I the meanwhile, burglaries begin to take place because people are starving.
Therefore, the family put bars over their windows and installs an alarm system. After, people from the outside the suburb being to stay in the streets of the suburb. Later, the family begins to look at the yard. And so the family installs razor wire on top of their fence. One day, their young, son is pretending to be a prince crawling through a thicket of thorns, and so he crawls into the razor wire and is killed.
Summary Reflection
Please answer all questions in complete, grammatically correct sentences.
1. I gather main ideas, read and take notes, organize the notes, make a thesis statement, make a rough draft.
2. What qualifies this paper as a summary? What are the requirements for this genre and how did you meet them?
I summarized the story. There were thesis statements, we had to take notes, we made a rough draft.
3. What piece of advice would you give someone writing a summary for the first time? Why?
Pay attention to the teacher.
Make all the corrections, listen to the directions, read the book carefully.
Ms.Lehmann
English 1-1A
18 December 2019
Summary
In Nadine Gordimer's short story " Once Upon a Time" the narrator warns about the danger of segregation. After a scare in her home, a reluctant narrator tells herself a " bedtime story". There is a mother, father and a young son. In the beginning, the family insured their home, put up a trespasser warning sign, and put a fence around the pool to keep their sone safe. Then, riots begin to take place in the neighborhood. Now the family installs an electronically controlled gate. I the meanwhile, burglaries begin to take place because people are starving.
Therefore, the family put bars over their windows and installs an alarm system. After, people from the outside the suburb being to stay in the streets of the suburb. Later, the family begins to look at the yard. And so the family installs razor wire on top of their fence. One day, their young, son is pretending to be a prince crawling through a thicket of thorns, and so he crawls into the razor wire and is killed.
Summary Reflection
Please answer all questions in complete, grammatically correct sentences.
1. I gather main ideas, read and take notes, organize the notes, make a thesis statement, make a rough draft.
2. What qualifies this paper as a summary? What are the requirements for this genre and how did you meet them?
I summarized the story. There were thesis statements, we had to take notes, we made a rough draft.
3. What piece of advice would you give someone writing a summary for the first time? Why?
Pay attention to the teacher.
Make all the corrections, listen to the directions, read the book carefully.