"Notes from the Midnight Driver" Summary Lesson

Pack contains: lesson plan, worksheets
Pack focus: summary writing activities, examples and practice.

Even though this lesson was written for the story “Notes from the Midnight Driver”, the worksheet can be used before the book has been fully read

Students learn how to write a good summary, why they are useful, and a step-by-step approach to writing one.

Activities include #hasthtag (identifying key themes and events through the smallest number of words possible), spot-the-extra-detail (identifying unnecessary information in a text), step-by-step guide to writing a summary, and a longer text to practice writing a summary, as well as suggestions of chapters/scenes to summarise from the book “Notes from the Midnight Driver” by Sonnenblick.