Core Skills Workout: Summarizing
Fiction: “The Quinceañera Text,” pages 18-20
November 2014
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Name: ___________________________________________________ Date: ________________________
Summarizing
An objective summary is a short statement or paragraph that tells what an article or story is about.
It does not include irrelevant details or the opinions of the person writing it.
Directions: Follow the prompts in the margins to complete the summary below.
Summary of “The Quinceañera Text”
“The Quinceañera Text” is about _______________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________
2. What is
the most
important
gift Ana
gets? Who
gives it to
her?
4. What does
Ana notice
about the
present?
1. Who is the
subject of the
story, and what
kind of event
is happening?
__________________________________ Ana desperately wants a phone, but instead she
receives _________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________ The gift doesn’t
seem special because _____________________________________________________
3. Why is Ana
confused
about this
gift?
______________________________________________________________ Ana notices
that her grandmother seems dejected, so she sits down to look at her present. She
sees _____________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Ana now understands that _________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________
This causes her to realize that her grandmother ____________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________ Ana asks her grandmother __________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
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5. Why is
the gift
important to
Ana’s family?
6. What does
the creaking
of her
grandmother’s
knees signify?
7. What does
Ana ask, and
what does this
reveal about
Ana’s opinion
of the
present?