1. Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting

2. SUMmarize Shorter than the original text Use your own words Main ideas only

3. Fiction vs. Nonfiction Summarizing Nonfiction -You focus on the important details or facts that help create a main idea. Ask: Who? What? When? Where? Why? Or How? Fiction -You focus on the events, characters, problem and solution. Use: Someone… Wanted… But… So… Then…

4. “Once Everest was determined to be the highest summit on the earth, it was only a matter of time before people decided that Everest needed to be climbed. After the American explorer Robert Peary claimed to have reached the North Pole in 1909 and Roald Amundsen led a Norwegian party to the South Pole in 1911, Everest—the so-called Third Pole—became the most coveted object in the realm of terrestrial exploration. Getting to the top, proclaimed Gunther O. Dyrenfurth, an influential alpinist and chronicler of early Himalayan mountaineering, was ‘