Natalia Valdez Ms. Lehmann English 1-1A 12 September 2018 “Rituals of Memory” Summarized In her essay “Rituals of Memory,” Kimberly M. Blaeser argues that relationships to the 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 her experience visiting all the graveyards in Mahomen and Nah-TahWaush to honor soldiers on Memorial Day with the Legionnoahes. She also explained that she lives two different lives by going to a catholic school and hanging out with her family to go hunting, and attend Powwows. Both heritages define her. Blaeser concludes that our stories, dreams and memories of our culture shape who we are.
Natalia Valdez Ms. Lehmann English 1-1A 22 September 2018 A Summary Of “Night Calls” “Night Calls,” by Lisa Fugard is a short story about the relationships between a father and a daughter. The narrator, Marlene, visits her dad, hoping far a connection, but her father is distant. Her mom’s death causes Marlene’s father to become depressed. Shortly after Marlene’s mother’s death, her father is put in charge of heron in the sanctuary. Marlene and her dad communicate better because of the heron. During holidays, her father would share the latest news about the heron with her. One night, the heron gets lost and her dad goes out at night to look for it. Marlene ends up finding the heron, dead when looking for snake skins and decides to bury it so her dad and her will still be able to communicate. When her dad goes out to look for the heron, she mimicks the heron call to give her dad hope.
Natalia Valdez Ms. Lehmann English 1-1A 28 September 2018 “Once Upon A Time” Summarized The short story, “Once Upon A Time,” by Nadine Gordimer, warns about the dangers of shutting people out. The narrator wakes up in the night and thinks she hears footsteps. Even after she thinks she is safe, she can’t calm down, so she starts to tell herself a bedtime story. Her story begins with a little boy and his parents who live in high-class suburbs. Over time, they find out that people in their neighborhood robbed and danger is creeping into the town. The family increases security by putting metal bars on the windows, installing an alarm, and building a high wall topped with razor. In the end, the little boy plays a game, climbing up the wall and getting mangled by the work.
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? One thing I learned from writing these summary's was that I should probably include the main idea from each paragraph also to make a summary short. I will use these skills by making the summary short and clear.
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? On "Rituals of Memory" I was to revise my spelling.
3) What are the conventions of a summary and how did you meet those in this assignment? The conventions I used to write this summary, was that I include the title,author and the main point to my summary's.
4) Given more time to work on this assignment, how would you improve it? Given more time to work on this assignment I would have checked for spelling errors.
5) What is one thing you're proud of in this paper? One thing I am proud of this paper is that I keeped it short and I didn't rewrite the original pieces.