Aleksi Buhler Ms. Lehman English1-1A 21 September 2018 Summary of “Night Calls” In the short story “Night Calls,” the author, Lisa Fugard, writes about a father and daughter relationship. Marlene, the narrator, visits her dad hoping for connection, but her father is distant. She explains that they haven’t been close since her mom’s death. Just before he quits his job and leaves his home, Marlene’s father is put in change of a rare heron, and it brings them closer. The heron gives them a better relationship with more communication. Later in the story, the bird dies and Marlene finds it, but she doesn’t tell her father, she just buries it. Marlene’s father keeps looking for the bird, so she sneaks out to mimic the heron’s call to giver her dad hope.
Aleksi Buhler Ms. Lehman English1-1A 21 September 2018 Summary of “Once upon a Time” “Once upon a time,” is a short story written by Nadine Gordimore. She wrote this story because she needed to write a kids book, because every writer has written a kids book. Nadine the narrator explained that she mistakenly thinks there’s an intruder in her home, to calm her self down she made this story. The setting of the story is an upper class suburb during apartheid. The story is about a family with a mother, father and son. The suburb begins to be robbed and dangers creep in. The family increases security even adding a wall topped with razor wire. The boy plays a game and crawls in the wire. He is mangled.
Aleksi Buhler Ms. Lehmann English 1-1A 19 September 2018 Summary of “Rituals of Memory” In her essay “Rituals of Memory,” Kimberly M. Blaeser argues that our relationships to our family and community shape who we are. Blaeser gives readers a metaphor comparing those relationships to her friend’s curly, tangled hair. She supports her claim with experiences from Memorial Day celebrations when her father joined the Legionnaries. That is a part of her American background, along with her Catholic and Native American heritage. Blaeser concludes that storied and memories from our culture make us who we are.
Summary Reflection 1. List one thing you've learned from writing this paper that you can apply to other writing assignments. What will that look like?
Answer: In this paper I learned to not write past tense in summaries, and to do present.
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?
Answer: I had to change a lot of words from past tense to present.
3. What are the conventions of a summary and how did you meet those in this assignment?
Answer: I had to summarize the stories without telling the full stories. I told what the stories were about and not what happened in them.
4. Given more time to work on this assignment, how would you improve it?
Answer: I would have added more information about the stories.
5. What is one thing you're proud of in this paper?
Answer: I'm proud of the grades I earned on these summaries.