gist for alice walker
TRANSCRIPT
GIST for Alice Walker’s “Without Commercials”
Name: ____________________ Period: _____ Directions:
1. Read the first three stanzas of the poem.2. Capture a summary or main message in a sentence using 20 words or less.3. Repeat this process for the last two stanzas of the poem. Realize that the second GIST
statement will become a combination of the first GIST statement and the new material. However, the second statement is still limited to exactly 20 words.
By revising and combining each GIST statement throughout reading, the main message of the poem will be identified.
Stanzas 1, 2, and 3 __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ Stanzas 4 and 5 __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________