URGENT “The Date of Infamy” Summary

Complete your final draft of your summary of “The Date of Infamy.” Your summary should:

Be written in your own words.

Include the author’s main, or central, idea.

Include details and evidence to support this main idea.

Highlight the logical relationships between the ideas presented in the original text.

Show evidence of revisions based on suggestions gathered from the discussion assignment.

Include a description of how you used the feedback to improve your summary.

Read this excerpt from "the all-american slurp." i pulled the strings out of my stalk. z-z-zip, z-z-zip. my brother followed suit. z-z-zip, z-z-zip. to my left, my parents were taking care of their own stalks. z-z-zip, z-z-zip, z-z-zip. suddenly i realized that there was dead silence except for our zipping. looking up, i saw that the eyes of everyone in the room were on our family. mr. and mrs. gleason, their daughter meg, who was my friend, and their neighbors the badels—they were all staring at us as we busily pulled the strings of our celery. what story element does the author develop in this excerpt? a) lot details about the party b) characterization of the lins c) characterization of the gleasons d) setting details about the gleasons’ house