1. WHAT IS AN
OBJECTIVE SUMMARY ?

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3. ELA 3RD & 4TH BLOCK
As you enter, add your text structure chart to your INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK. Then, set up CORNELL NOTES in your INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK for upcoming vocabulary.

4. What do you remember about the central idea?

5. QUESTION/CONCEPT
ANSWER/EXPLANATION

6. CENTRAL IDEA IS
IS NOT
* a topic * a supporting detail * not necessarily directly stated by the author (use inference)
The point the author is trying to make for a section of text.
Usually has a universal appeal to it.
Can be supported by evidence in the text.

7. What are the parts of an Objective (Analytical) Summary?

8. Person who wrote the text. Central Idea:
Title: Name of the text.
Text structure: how information is organized: problem/solution, cause-effect, compare/contrast or chronological/sequence
Author:
Person who wrote the text.
Central Idea:
the point the author is making.
Support: Key details which back up the central idea.
Connect: Elaborate on how the detail supports the central idea.
CLINCHER SENTENCE – Strong summary sentence that wraps up point.

9. OTHER IMPORTANT WORDS
BIAS
is disproportionate weight in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.
OBJECTIVE
not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts.

10. What are the parts of an Objective (Analytical) Summary?

13. GUIDED PRACTICE

14. Let’s practice… “What’s Dirtier—your cell phone or the toilet seat?”
TEACHER MODEL
Let’s practice…
“What’s Dirtier—your cell phone or the toilet seat?”

15. AUTHOR-TITLE-TEXT STRUCTURE…CENTRAL IDEA!

16. AUTHOR-TITLE-TEXT STRUCTURE…CENTRAL IDEA!
In the article, “What’s Dirtier, Cell Phone or Toilet Seat’ by an ABC News staff writer, the author uses compare/contrast text structure to explain the central idea that science teaches us that everything isn’t always what it seems.

17. SUPPORT
The author states that most people in New York City thought the toilet seat would be dirtier than the cell phone. However, this belief was refuted by research that showed that cell phones were usually petri dishes for tens of thousands of germs.

18. CONNECT (elaborate/explain)
This meant that science exploded the myth that toilet seats would hold more germs.

19. In the article, “What’s Dirtier, Cell Phone or Toilet Seat by an ABC News staff writer, the author uses compare/contrast text structure to explain the central idea that science teaches us that everything isn’t always what it seems. The author states that most people in New York City thought the toilet seat would be dirtier than the cell phone. However, this belief was refuted by research that showed that cell phones were usually petri dishes for tens of thousands of germs. This means that science exploded the myth that toilet seats would hold more germs. The text also reveals that a microbiologist tested the phones of the G.M.A. crew and found that the soundman had between 10 and 50 million bacteria on his phone. This evidence was definitely not what the soundman was expecting. Basically, science has a way of correcting misinformation in our society!

20. Non fiction notes organizer
Objective summary stem
Writing my own Objective summary!

21. “All the Secrets of Mummies Revealed”
Read & annotate section 3 identifying the central idea and key supporting details of the section.
“All the Secrets of Mummies Revealed”

22. Supporting Details
Central Idea

23. Non fiction notes organizer
Using Section 3 —find two (2) more details that support the central idea.
Talk out what this means with your partner, THEN
INDEPENDENTLY, write your “this means” / elaboration
statement.

24. Non fiction notes organizer
Did you use the info from section 3 to complete it?
Objective summary stem
Did you use the Non fiction notes organizer to write the
objective summary?
No?? Why not?