Summarizer


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**The job of the summarizer is to retell in a summary what happened in the reading you did for this week. Make sure to use complete sentences in your summary. Remember, summaries often include characters and setting. Think of who, when, where, what, and why?** W

**Week 2**

**In the book __When You Reach Me__ Miranda goes to school and figures out that her school has a dentist because some kids parents can't afford to go to the real dentist. Miranda has to find all the kids that are on the list when she gets to a boy named Marcus. Thats when she remembers that Marcus is the boy who punched Sal. Miranda was kind of scared that he would be mean but it turns out that he is very nice and very smart. Also one day when Miranda gets home she finds the door unlocked. She thinks that her mom forgot to lock it, but when her mom got home, she says she locked their apartment but nothing was missing except that the house key in the fire tube was gone. Thats when Miranda finds a note from someone telling her to tell them where their house key is and to write back. (Bella)**

**Comments:** Bella, you are an amazing summarizer, you put the story into that small paragraph in such a phenomenal way. You are a great writer you should be very proud of yourself and of your writing. Once again great job Bella!!! (Taylor)

*phenomenal (sarah) Thanks! (Taylor)

Week 3
The reading starts out with Annemarie coming over to Miranda's house. Miranda is scared that Annemarie is going to think she is weird because of the laughing man and because her house is different. While Miranda is counting Jimmy's bread, she gets another note. The note says that her letter must tell a story about what happens. It also tells her not to tell anyone about the notes. Later, Julia tells Annemarie and Miranda that they shouldn't work at Jimmy's anymore. When Colin, Annemarie, and Miranda are working in the sandwich place, Julia comes and I'm pretty sure she asked for a job but it was kind of hard to tell. Jimmy said no. After Thanksgiving break, they couldn't leave at lunch so they ate in the cafeteria at school. While they are eating, Annemarie stops talking and just zoned out for a while. Julia then explains rather meanly that Annemarie has epilepsy so she has seizures sometimes. She is not allowed to eat bread or drink soda which is what she has been doing at Jimmy's. At the very end, Annemarie finds a rose on her doormat. Miranda thinks it is from Colin but she doesn't want to admit it because she doesn't want it to be true. (sarah)

Woah!!! AMAZING. You are such a good summarizer Sarah! I completely agree with you and wouldn't change anything about your summary. You didn't leave anything out... :) (Marissa)

Week 4-

While walking to school, Miranda finds her third note. This note told places and times of where she needs to be to find “proof.” She is walking with Marcus, who is trying to explain time travel, when the laughing man bumps into Marcus, then turns and runs away. Marcus said that it was the second time that happened. Then, Jimmy said that he was missing two pieces of bread. Miranda checked Colin’s backpack at 3:00 PM.(because that is one of the places that the note said) and she found the two pieces of bread. Then Miranda gives the laughing man a sandwich, and he asked her a bunch of confusing questions like “What was the burn scale today?” The next time they stop over at Jimmy’s he refuses to let them in because someone stole his piggy bank. Annemarie, Miranda and Colin write Jimmy a letter saying that they didnt steal the piggy bank. Jimmy allows them all back to work, then accuses Julia of stealing the bank because she is black. Colin admits to Miranda that he did take the two pieces of bread but not the piggy bank. (Marissa)

COMMENTS Great summarizing! It is very good how you were able to summarize all the stuff we read into that much writing. It helped me remember exactly what happedned in the reading. (sarah)

Great summarization! It is well written. I think is someone has never read the book before, they would be able to understand it really well. (Lauren)

==== While reading this section of our book, Miranda leaves early in the morning to get out of the house and to get her mom a bagel. Meanwhile Annemarie's dad invites Miranda over to their house to "play". Miranda's mom gets worried and starts to freak out but then she finds Miranda, perfectly fine, at Annemarie's. During this part of "When You Reach Me," Miranda finds out that the laughing man took the 2 dollar bills and he knew about the notes that Miranda is recieving. He also took the shoes from Miranda's apartment. Also Colin unexpectedly kisses Miranda, he comes right to her door with his skateboard and just kisses her.... he just leans forward and kisses her, nothing else was said before he ran away. Just as Colin was crossing the street, a large truck came and almost hit him but the laughing man jumped out and saved Colin from being hit. Sadly and tragically the laughing man is killed by the blow that the truck delivered. Miranda lists the things that she would write in the letter to the person who is sending her the notes, she says everything that she would mention. In the end of this section, Sal is in the hospital with a broken arm and three broken ribs, that is what happened to him from the truck accident. Miranda is informed that Sal will be perfectly fine, the hospital just wants to keep him for testing to make sure he will be okay.... When Miranda heard that she was laying on her bed while her mom calmy and soothingly explained. (Taylor) ====
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==== Good summarizing! This really helped me remember what was going on in a short, easy to read paragraph. Great Work :D Just one thing: you put Colin instead of Sal when you were talking about the accident. (Sarah) ====

Great summarization! It definitely helped me remember! Also, if someone who wasn't reading the book, read that, they would understand perfectly! Great job! :) (Marissa)

Week 6:

==== During the last section of the book, we, as the readers, figure out a lot of new things, that we might've had questions about. Mirandas mom, won 10,000 dollars at the 20,000 dollar pyramid gameshow. Also during this part of the book, we found out that it was the laughing man that took Jimmy's Fred Flinstone bank. Along the same lines of the laughing man, we found out that he was the one writing the notes to Miranda. And that Marcus, is the laughing man. The crazy kicks he would do in the middle of the street, actually had a meaning. Sal was the friend that needed saving. Sal and Miranda became friends again, the reason they stopped being friends is because Sal wanted more friends rather than just Miranda. At the very end Sal and Miranda decided to be friends but just friends, not best friends. If they saw eachother they would say hi or hang out for a little bit possibly but they decided to not be best friends because they both wanted other friends still. Miranda writes the letter finally and she says she will give it to him and just say don't land in the brocoli, because she knows he will understand. He will understand because she says he is a smart kid... he will understand. She just knows it! (Lauren) ====

Comments:
If I had never read this book before I think from your writing, I could understand EXACTLY what is going on. Your writing is very fluent and you did perfect at this job this week. You are an awesome summarizer and I can definitely tell you understand this book. Great Job Lauren!!! :) (Taylor)

Good job :) I liked how you wrote that! when i first read this i didnt understand it well! Even when I read it a second time it was still hard to understand. What you wrote helped me consolidate all the information and know what it means!!!! (Sarah)

Wow! Great summarization. I agree with Taylor and Sarah. If I had never read this part of the book, I would know what happened without even reading it. Your summarization was perfect. Also, the last part of the book was confusing, but you helped me understand. (Marissa)