Summary+and+Prediction

Read your book and summarize the main points from the portion you just read. Also, devise a prediction using evidence from the book.

Writing a Summary : 
 * Find important facts, statements and ideas
 * Leave all statistics, dates and names, quotations, details and comparisons, examples, opinions, and decorating expressions unless they are important for the understanding of the text.
 * Cut the original text to one third.
 * The summary is usually written in the //present tense.//

**Summing-up** is a technique that follows **strict rules:** 1. The original text is cut to about one third. 2. Only the main ideas are mentioned; that means that no examples or repetitions are allowed. 3. Specific statements are combined to form general statements. 4. Direct or reported speech are changed into statements, with the exception of very important quotations.

= Example of a summary from Ch 2 of the book __Hoot__: =

Once, in his pursuit, Roy sees the boy look backwards as if he knows he’s being chased, but Roy never stops. Eventually, he finds himself on a golf course as he follows the boy down a long fairway. Golfers scream angrily at him, but that doesn’t make him stop either. It’s only when he’s hit with a ball off a long drive and collapses to the ground that Roy’s chase finally ends. As he lies there, he’s aware that there are men running up to him in a panic, but he drifts away into his own thoughts and dreams. He remembers Bozeman, Montana, where he had wanted to stay forever, and how he had cried when his parents had told him they were moving once again.

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