Dawson Schilz Ms. Lehmann English 1-1A 19 September 2018 Summary of "Night Calls" The short story "Night Calls," by Lisa Fugard, shows the relationship between a father and daughter. In the beginning, the narrator visits her dad, hoping for connection, but the father seems really distant. When the daughter is eight, her mom dies, causing her father to be really depressed. Then, all of a sudden, an almost extinct heron shows up and gives the father hope. After the heron shows up, the dad and the narrator form a better relationship. Near the end, the bird dies, and the narrator finds it and buries it so that her father won't find it. Finally, the narrator mimics the bird's calls to give her father hope.
Dawson Schilz Ms. Lehmann English 1-1A 21 September 2018 Summary of "Rituals of Memory" In the essay "Rituals of Memory," Kimberly M. Blaeser argues that our relationships to 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 memories of the Legionnaires honoring fallen Native American soldiers. Blaeser also gives the example of her dual life. She tells about her German Catholic school and her Native American education, and how they both define her. She concludes that our stories and memories define who we are.
Dawson Schilz Ms. Lehmann English 1-1A 21 September 2018 Summary of "Once Upon A Time" The short story "Once Upon A Time," by Nadine Gordimer, warns about the dangers of shutting people out. The narrator wakes up in the middle of the night and imagines that she hears footsteps in her house, so she tells herself a story to help calm herself down. In her story a family, composed of a mom, dad, and a little kid, live in an upper-class suburb during apartheid. Later in the story, the suburb starts getting robbed and danger starts to creep in. The family starts to put up security, starting with alarms, then the family put up a seven foot wall around the property, even putting iron bars on the windows and barbed wire atop the wall. One night, the parents read the little boy a fairytale about a prince trying to rescue Sleeping Beauty by going through thorns. The next day, the little boy pretends to be a prince, grabs a ladder and goes up to the barbed wire fence, creeping into the barbed wire. The razor teeth get lodged into his body, mutilating him.
Summary Reflection Questions Answer all questions with complete, grammatically correct sentences. Be specific and thoroughly address each question. 1. List one thing you've learned from writing this paper that you can apply to other writing assignments. What will that look like?
-I have learned to complete our summaries with no grammatical errors or spelling mistakes. I had multiple grammatical and spelling mistakes on the outlines of my summaries.
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?
-I was asked to make simple grammatical errors that were really easy to fix.
3. What are the conventions of a summary and how did you meet those in this assignment?
-The conventions of a summary is to give a brief explanation about the author's work.
4. Given more time to work on this assignment, how would you improve it?
-If I was given more time to work on the assignment I would've re-read over my summary outlines and I would've made sure that my work would look more professional
5. What is one thing you're proud of in this paper?
-One thing that I am proud of is that I didn't procrastinate on any of my work and that I completed all that was asked to do.