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Lesson Seven: Writing Workshop- Summary Answers

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Paraphrase the central idea.

Answer:

The speaker realizes he has been captured and faces enslavement, and he is overcome with horror and despair.

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Paraphrase the supporting details.

Answer:

The people’s unfamiliar appearance and language frightened the speaker. Seeing a boiling furnace and many Black people chained together with sorrowful expressions made him believe he was enslaved too.

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Check that you’ve used your own words and:

A
pointed out that the captors look different.
B
noted that Olaudah’s fear causes him to faint.
4

Read these two summaries. Which is the more objective summary?

A
Olaudah Equiano seemed scared of the slave ship when he saw it. He passed out cold because he knew just by looking at his captors that he was never going to get home again. They were so different than he and the other enslaved people thought they must be really evil. The conditions aboard the ship were as bad as you could ever imagine. The smells were awful. Olaudah Equiano wouldn’t eat, which caused him to be beaten by the men who enslaved him.
B
Olaudah Equiano was terrified when he first saw the slave ship. His fear of the future was so horrible, he passed out cold. He knew by looking at his captors that he was never going to get home again. Because they looked so different than he and the other enslaved people looked, he knew what his future held. Even the conditions aboard the ship were horrible. The smells were awful and made Olaudah Equiano feel sick. When he refused to eat, he was beaten.
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What about this summary makes it objective? Check the three best answers.

A
The writer used first-person words like “I” and “me.”
B
The language doesn’t include the writer’s reactions or judgments.
C
The language includes only the emotions that Olaudah Equiano described.
D
The writer avoided using loaded language.
E
The writer includes personal opinions.
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Paraphrase the central idea. Use third-person.

Answer:

the central idea and details in your own words. Olaudah seeing the slave ship. Olaudah’s fear in the supporting details.

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Strong responses include each of the following. Check each one you included.the central idea and details in your own words.Olaudah seeing the slave ship.Olaudah’s fear in the supporting details.

A
the central idea and details in your own words.
B
Olaudah seeing the slave ship.
C
Olaudah’s fear in the supporting details.

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