Yvette Juarez Ms. Lehmann English 1-1A !9 September 2018 Summary on “Once Upon A Time” In the short story “Once Upon A Time,” the author, Nadine Godimer, warns people about the dangers of shutting people out. One night, the narrator fears that someone broke into her house. Even after she learns she is ok, she can’t relax so she decides to tell herself a story to calm down. In the story, she introduces a mom, dad and a little boy who live in an upper-class suburb during apartheid. The suburb slowly begins to dissolve into chaos and danger. As a result of the chaos, the family increase security, even adding a wall topped with razor wire. One day while the little boy is playing, he gets mangled by the razor wire on top of the wall.
Yvette Juarez Ms. Lehmann English 1-1A 21 September 2018 Summary of “Rituals of Memory” In her essay “Rituals of Memory,” Kimberly M. Blaeser argues that out relationships to family and community shape who we are. Blaeser gives readers a metaphor comparing those relationships to her friends curly, tangled hair. Blaeser supports her claim by telling us about experiences honoring Native American warriors with the legionnaires. Blaeser also gives us the example of her dual life, being Native American and German Catholic. She describes learning about her catholic culture and her Native American culture. Both of which define her. She concludes that our backgrounds, family, and culture define who we are.
Yvette Juarez Ms. Lehmann English 1-1A 21 September 2018 Summary of “Night Calls” In the short story “Night Calls,” Lisa Fugard writes about a relationship between a girl and her father. Marlene visits her dad hoping for a connection, but the father is distant towards her. The narrator, Marlene, realizes her father is depressed over her mother’s death, but then is put in charge of a heron that gives the father hope again. The father becomes happier and he and Marlene begin to establish a better relationship with more communication. All of a sudden, the bird dies. Marlene finds the bird’s remains and decides to bury the bird to keep her dad from finding out it died. Marlene hides in the weeds where her father looks for the bird and mimics the heron’s calls to give her father hope. Summary Reflection Questions Answer all questions with complete, grammatically correct sentences. Be specific and thoroughly address each question.
List one thing you've learned from writing this paper that you can apply to other writing assignments. What will that look like?
A summary doesn’t retell the story- you have to choose main ideas.
2. Identify a specific revision you were asked to make and explain why (this can be at any stage of the writing process).
How did you revise? What did you learn? I was asked to fix my spelling. I looked over it and changed the word to how you’re actually supposed to spell it.
3. What are the conventions of a summary and how did you meet those in this assignment?
1st sentence, big idea, author, title, genre, main details only, no opinions. I practiced using them all in my assignment by going through each part in the list.
4. Given more time to work on this assignment, how would you improve it?
Give more information on my topics and go through checking for misspellings or any other kinds of errors.
5. What is one thing you're proud of in this paper?
Completing it on my own and showing enough evidence.