Hey, we taught all our students the Chain of Main Ideas summarizing technique in September, but it's really the type of thing that is learned more through practice. So, your Foreign Language teachers have been nice enough to let us practice with a reading about the importance of their subject.
Here's the reading: "Why Study a Foreign Language."
Write a Chain of Main Ideas summary or it.
Review:
1. Read the paragraph.
2. Ask yourself, "WHO is this paragraph about? WHAT are they doing or WHAT is happening to them?"
3. If you think you know, write it down as a sentence, e.g., "Jackie Robinson faced prejudice when he was in the armed forces as a young man." Jackie Robinson is the WHO and faced prejudice when he was in the armed forces as a young man is the WHAT.
4. If you don't know, the paragraph again, once. Don't spend more than fifteen seconds thinking about any paragraph -- in that time, you could just read it again.
5. After two readings, take your best shot and write down a WHO+WHAT. Move on. Sometimes, you can get away with not understanding one of the paragraphs. Don't let yourself get stuck.
MAKE SURE YOUR SENTENCES ARE IN YOUR OWN WORDS. DON'T COPY AND PASTE OR YOU DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW IT.
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