BMEPNI Summarising task

BMEPNI

Accelerated Learning in Literacy Term 3

Our class in Year 9 is looking at four main skills we will be looking at this term to improve our literacy.  The Fab Four skills are: 

Predicting

Questioning

Clarifying

Summarising

A skill that students use to improve their literacy is to be able to summarise what they see, read, hear, view or watch.

At the start of the term, our teacher Mr McCartney got us to write about our holidays under the heading BMEPMI - which is an acronym for beginning, middle and end, positives, minuses and interesting.

Original story

 The beginning of the holidays were great. I was able to sleep in for once which was nice.I spent a lot of my time playing video games I either had not played in a long time or new games I got for my birthday which was one week prior. 

The middle of my school holiday was going great. I was once again playing video games a lot but I also built a model of our solar system The milky way. I also painted them the colours that they are commonly associated with.

The end of my holidays was bittersweet on one hand I got to see my friends,The ones I didn't talk with online,but on the other hand I have to go back to school which is not fun because it is very boring. 

A positive thing besides playing video games was getting to talk with my online friends at 3am which was fun for me because I barely sleep but probably really bad for them.I don't really have anything negative about my holidays it was an overall good experienceSomething interesting about my holidays was the last day just kinda vanished but that might have been because of the fact I was sick so i don't know.

My original story was  212 words.

Then he asked us to choose TWO sentences from each paragraph that were the main ones for beginning, middle, end, positives, minuses and interesting. 

I enjoyed my school holidays even though most of it was me playing video games,

But I did talk to my friends online a few with discord which was fun. 

 I did with help from my dad was able to create a model of the solar system we painted the planets the colours they are normally associated with.

The end of my holidays were bitter sweat on one hand I got to see my friends again but on the hand I had to go back to school, BORING also the last day just seemed to vanish but i was sick so I don't know .

Here's a good 103 word summary of my holidays.

Today we watched a ted talk about how not to be ignorant about te world.

https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_and_ola_rosling_how_not_to_be_ignorant_about_the_world

The ted talk told us to remove personal bias. Everything is improving and not everything is dangerous.