Jordan Stubbs
Ms. Lehmann
English 1-3
19 September 2018
“Night Calls” Summarized
The short story “Night Calls,” written by Lisa Fugard, talks about a parent and child’s relationship. In the beginning, it talks about how the girl and the dad’s relationship are distant. As the story goes on, the mother dies, leaving the father grieving. He almost moves, sending the girl to boarding school. The father decides to stay because he is put in change of a heron, which gives him hope. The relationship between the girl and the dad improves tremendously. One night, hyena gets in the heron’s cage, and the heron escapes. The girl finds the bird dead and buries it. As the story comes to an end, the dad loses hope so the girl makes a heron call to return her father's hope.
Ms. Lehmann
English 1-3
19 September 2018
“Night Calls” Summarized
The short story “Night Calls,” written by Lisa Fugard, talks about a parent and child’s relationship. In the beginning, it talks about how the girl and the dad’s relationship are distant. As the story goes on, the mother dies, leaving the father grieving. He almost moves, sending the girl to boarding school. The father decides to stay because he is put in change of a heron, which gives him hope. The relationship between the girl and the dad improves tremendously. One night, hyena gets in the heron’s cage, and the heron escapes. The girl finds the bird dead and buries it. As the story comes to an end, the dad loses hope so the girl makes a heron call to return her father's hope.
Jordan Stubbs
Ms. Lehmann
English 1-3
19 September 2018
“Rituals of Memory” Summarized
Kimberly Blaeser’s essay, “Rituals of Memory,” argues that we always come back to our roots. Blaeser begins her essay with a metaphor that shows readers her opinion about how relationships to family and community work. She uses her memories of the Legionnaires as evidence for her claim. Following that, she states how she two lives defining her-her Native American education and her time at the catholic school. To end the essay, she sums up the point, saying that our memories and stories define who we are.
Jordan Stubbs
Ms. Lehmann
English 1-3
19 September 2018
Summary of “Once Upon A Time”
The short story, “Once Upon A Time” by Nadine Gordimer, gives a warning that there is a risk in being to secure and what you try to protect could be the thing you hurt instead. In the beginning, the author thought she heard a noise and couldn’t fall asleep, so she told herself a bedtime story. In the beginning of the story, the author introduces a mom, a dad, and a son that live in an upper-class suburb during segregation with nearby riots. Over time in the suburbs, crime escalates, so the family increases security surrounding their house. Even placing razor wire atop the wall. As the story comes to an end, the mom tells the boy the story of sleeping beauty. The boy pretends to be the prince saving the princess and crawls into the wire and getting caught, paying for the parents decisions.
Summary Reflection
1. List one thing you’ve learned from writing from this paper that you can apply to other writing assignments. What will that look like?
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?
3. What are the conventions of a summary and how did you meet those in this assignment?
4. Given more time to work on this assignment, how would you improve it?
5. What is one thing you’re proud of in this paper?
1. List one thing you’ve learned from writing from this paper that you can apply to other writing assignments. What will that look like?
- One thing that I have learned from this paper is, how the introduction sentence should look and what goes into it. This will help me start all of my papers correctly and how to make it sound better.
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 change my grammar. Changing my grammar really helped me with knowing where things go and what I need to add to any paper I write.
3. What are the conventions of a summary and how did you meet those in this assignment?
- I was asked to include the author, genre, big idea, and the title. Doing this I learned what goes in the first sentence to make my essays sound better. Next, I was asked to put everything in chronicle order of events that happened. This helped me know when and where to put the events to make it understandable. Lastly, I was asked to not put any opinion in my summaries. Not putting any opinions in the summaries was harder for me because im used to writing papers not summaries.
4. Given more time to work on this assignment, how would you improve it?
- I would improve on my grammar, because I added to much punctuation or not enough punctuation in certain places.
5. What is one thing you’re proud of in this paper?
- One thing that I am proud of is, my wording. I got most of my wording in a good order and it made sense, but I can work on it a little and try to sound more professional.