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Lesson 8

We will review feedback on the Section Diagnostic. We will also review how to summarize, identify central ideas in a material, and include necessary components of our annotated bibliographies.

Lesson Goals

  • Can I express an accurate understanding of the central ideas of texts?

  • Can I gather and organize relevant and sufficient evidence to demonstrate an understanding of texts and topics, support claims, and develop ideas?

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Materials

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Activity 1: Read – Discuss – Write

We will review the feedback for our previous Section Diagnostic.

Reread your Section Diagnostic artifacts and the teacher comments and evaluations you received. With a writing partner or your teacher, discuss how you might improve your writing.

Activity 2: Read

We will choose one article that pertains to our pathway choice.

Research a text online or use an article you have read in the past that pertains to your pathway. Do not use an article you previously wrote an annotated bibliography for. Read or reread your article of choice.

Summarize your text, detailing what it is about.

Respond to the following questions:

  1. What is the author’s primary message?

  2. What idea does the author want you to walk away with?

Activity 3: Write

We will compose an annotated bibliography for our article of choice.

Step 1

Work with a partner or in a small group to summarize your article.

  • Scan each paragraph and identify the key ideas.

  • Answer this question: Who or what is this paragraph mainly about?

  • Identify two to three important pieces of information linked to the "who" or "what."

Step 2

With a partner or a small group, write two or three of the author’s main claims. Then, determine one to two key supports for each claim. Do not include minor details.

Use the notes you and your partner created to write your own annotated bibliography that summarizes two of your sources. Set your paper up in the correct formatting. Your annotated bibliography should be organized in chronological order.

  • Write the source’s citation.

  • Directly under your citation, begin your summarizing paragraph.

Your paragraph should be informative and unbiased; it should summarize and reflect on the source’s usefulness to your pathway, as well as describe aspects that others might find useful.

Usually, annotated bibliographies consist of only one paragraph per source of about 150-200 words; however, if absolutely necessary, you can include a second paragraph.

Use professional language and refrain from using personal pronouns.

Employ complex conventions, such as the colon, semicolon, and em dash.

Add this annotated bibliography to the two annotated bibliographies you created in prior lessons.