You'll C-E-R a difference in classroom achievement after using a helpful lesson. Designed for economics, civics, government, and US history classes, participants practice using the CER model to craft arguments about primary and secondary...

Is a college education necessary for success in today's world? The class investigates the question, along with others at the end of the sixth workshop in a 15-part series. The lesson has four parts with multiple activities and...

How can opinions slant facts? Workshop participants learn how to examine primary and secondary sources and identify the author's point of view. They also examine how visual art impacts the meaning and rhetoric of sources. Full of...

This is a summary and analysis of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing including a list of characters, a plot summary and analysis, figures of speech, metaphors of fire, Dogberry's Malaporpisms, animal imagery, and study questions and...

In this lesson, students will learn how to write an effective summary using reading strategies to help ensure that the summary contains enough information without including unnecessary details or personal opinions. You will also learn...

This lesson will focus on summary and critique separately so that you can distinguish between the two. You will learn how to summarize a text and how to distinguish between essential and nonessential information when summarizing. You...

This page provides a summary of the content from each section of Chapter 12: Fluid Dynamics and Its Biological & Medical Applications.

This is a summary of each of the sections in Chapter 3: Kinematics in Two Dimensions of the AP Physics online text.

This is a summary of the information in Chapter 7: Work, Energy, and Energy Resources for the AP Physics I course online.

This page provides a summary for each section of Chapter 16: Oscillatory Motion and Waves from the AP Physics online text.

This section focuses on the key concepts and a summary of macroeconomics covered in Chapter 2: Choice in a World of Scarcity from the TEA AP Macroeconomics.

This is a "critical summary and overview" of C.S. Lewis' book, "Surprised by Joy." The author, Dr. Bruce L. Edwards of Bowling Green State University, breaks the analysis into three parts, which might be a useful pattern for students in...

This lesson focuses on teaching high school students to write a movie summary that provides a plot summary without sharing too much of the storyline but includes the following: brevity, conflict, theme, tone, and persuades others to want...

In this learning module, students demonstrate an understanding of summary writing by reading step-by-step instructions and then summarizing short paragraphs. Examples of summaries that are poorly written, as well as those that are...

If you need to get a handle on what's important in some of Wharton's major works, this site will be helpful. Summaries and questions are contributed by Wharton Society members from various universities.

A short summary of an article written on the famous Greek play by Sophocles. A good reference for a student looking for examples of summary essays.

An excellent source on writing the executive summary of a business plan; including, what it should accomplish and its attributes. This was written in October 2000 by David E. Gumpert.

This site, which is provided for by the Fordham University, gives great information on a summary of matrix and polynomial features. This is a great site to check out on the subject.

This is a great summary of Zelman v. Simmons-Harris where the Supreme Court upheld school vouchers. Gives the dates the case was heard and decided, facts of the case, legal question presented, the courts decision, and how each justice...

Here is a summary of convergence tests. They are listed in the order that you should use/try them when testing for convergence or divergence.

Prepared by a professor of Russian language and literature at Middlebury College, this site offers a very useful study guide for the student of Crime and Punishment, including chapter-by-chapter summaries, identifications of the book's...

In this slideshow tutorial, students are provided with notes that distinguish "summarizing" from "paraphrasing" content. Examples of effective summaries and paraphrases of text are provided. Then students have the opportunity to engage...

This lesson focuses on how to write a summary including strategies for annotation, paraphrasing the thesis statement, distinguishing major ideas from minor ones, and picking appropriate quotes. It also provides videos including "How to...

This instructional activity focuses on how to integrate source material using paraphrase and summary and the differences between the two. It also provides a practice exercise.