Summary and Analysis of the short story The Glass of Milk

1. As a class/individually review summary and analysis.

• Discuss three key elements of summarizing:

a. Provide overview or topic statement
b. Include key details
c. Leave out irrelevant or unimportant details

•  Discuss why summarizing is important:

a. Helps to see how ideas fit together to form coherent whole
b. Provides a means for presenting ideas in ways others can understand
c. Watch video on writing a summary 

• Discuss analysis
  • Watch the video on literary analysis

a. Write down three things learned while viewing the video.

• Watch the video on What is analysis?

b. Write down three things learned while viewing the video.

2. Each student will receive a copy of "The Glass of Milk” short story by Manuel Rojas“

(Available in the resources link or in "Classics for Young Readers” Volume 8.)  

3. Read the short story as a class or students can read individually on Chromebooks or laptops.

a. Students will answer three questions about the story.

4. Students will record their summary, key details, and analysis of the short story individually.

5. The students will be assessed with a rubric. 

• Ask students to summarize the story in at least two paragraphs.
  1. Students should write their summary based on the criteria listed in the summary video
• Ask students to analyze the story including what they learned in the videos.  The analysis should include:
  1. Main idea
  2. What points make up the main idea
  3. Examine relationships between main ideas and points
  4. What evidence from the story supports analyses
  5. At least ten words from the vocabulary list (optional)

Accommodations: 
The groups will be determined by individual student reading levels. Each group will have at least two lower level readers, and two higher level readers. This will give the lower reading level students a chance to learn from their peers, and a chance for the higher reading level peers to help teach their classmates (builds confidence). 

Lesson rubric provided.