4-Step Summary:Step #1: Create a topic sentence.

(I+V+F)

Introduce(What are you summarizing?)

Verb(Examples: describes, explains, tells, convinces, shows)

Finish the Thought(the main idea of what you’re summarizing)

Beauty and the Beast, a Disney movie based on a classic fairytale by Madame Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve,

shows the importance of not judging others before you get to know them.

Step #2: Create a fact outline.List the most important information from the beginning, middle,

and end. * Belle, beautiful and kind, lives with her father.* turns down a marriage proposal from Gaston.

* gets held hostage in a magical castle with a beast * the beast is really a prince who had a spell cast on him

* She begins to care about the beast* Gaston gets jealous and leads a mob to kill the beast

* Belle, the beast, and the servants fight the mob and prevail.* Belle falls in love with the beast and he falls in love with Belle.

* spell is broken, and everyone lives happily ever after

Step #3: Write a conclusion sentence.Write a conclusion sentence that wraps up the information you summarized. In the end, because Belle didn’t judge the beast, she falls in love with him based on

who he is as a person.

Step #4: Put Steps #1, #2, and #3 together into one paragraph.Use complete sentences.

Use transition words.Check your conventions.

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Beauty and the Beast, a Disney movie based on a classic fairytale by Madame Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, shows the importance of not judging others before you get to know them. Belle, a beautiful and kind young lady, lives with her father. She turns down a marriage proposal from Gaston, a conceited, narrow-minded man in town. When going on a trip for her father, Belle ends up getting held hostage in a magical castle with a beast. However, the beast is really a prince who had a spell cast on him. While at the castle, Belle begins to care about the beast. Gaston gets jealous and leads a mob to kill the beast as an act of revenge. Thankfully, Belle, the beast, and the servants fight the mob and prevail. Belle falls in love with the beast and he falls in love with Belle. This love breaks the spell, and everyone lives happily ever after. In the end, because Belle didn’t judge the beast, she falls in love with him based on who he is as a person.