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Steam Rising: The Revolutionary Power of Paddleboats / Summaries of “Steam Rising”
Introducing the SelectionsInformational Text Focus: Evaluating a SummaryWriting Skills Focus
Feature Menu
What does it take to make a good idea work?
Steam Rising: The Revolutionary Power of Paddleboats / Summaries of “Steam Rising”
Magazine Article and Summaries
For centuries, inventors have identified a need and then developed a product to answer that need.Inventions such as the airplane, the train, and the car help us travel vast distances quickly and easily.
Steam Rising: The Revolutionary Power of Paddleboats / Summaries of “Steam Rising”
Introducing the Selections
Inventors answered the need for efficient travel on the Mississippi River by developing giant paddlewheel boats.
In past centuries, however, people’s travel needs were more basic.
Steam Rising: The Revolutionary Power of Paddleboats / Summaries of “Steam Rising”
Introducing the Selections
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“Steam Rising: The Revolutionary Power of Paddleboats” explores the paddlewheel’s extraordinary importance to America’s economic growth.
Today, however, these marvels of the U.S. waterways are little more than interesting tourist stops.
Steam Rising: The Revolutionary Power of Paddleboats / Summaries of “Steam Rising”
Introducing the Selections
You encounter summaries of informational texts every day in newspapers, magazines, book reviews, and online.A summary can help you understand an article’s most important ideas.
Steam Rising: The Revolutionary Power of Paddleboats / Summaries of “Steam Rising”
Informational Text Focus: Evaluating a Summary
Summaries
A summary gives an overview of a text, providing a brief recounting of the text’s most important ideas.
This newspaper article summarizes
rules about campaign
finances. Those rules will be very important in the next election.
Steam Rising: The Revolutionary Power of Paddleboats / Summaries of “Steam Rising”
Informational Text Focus: Evaluating a Summary
An effective summary helps you understand a text’s main ideas, as well as recognize important supporting details.
main ideas
details
I get it now!
Steam Rising: The Revolutionary Power of Paddleboats / Summaries of “Steam Rising”
Informational Text Focus: Evaluating a Summary
2. State the topic of the article.
1. Open with the article’s title and author.
3. State the main ideas, in the order in which they occur in the article.
Here is how to create a meaningful summary of an informational text:
Steam Rising: The Revolutionary Power of Paddleboats / Summaries of “Steam Rising”
Informational Text Focus: Evaluating a Summary
people places dates
4. Include important supporting details (people, places, dates).
Here is how to create a meaningful summary of an informational text:
5. Include quotation marks around words from the text that are quoted exactly.
In Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain wrote, “And
the boat IS a rather handsome sight, too.”
Steam Rising: The Revolutionary Power of Paddleboats / Summaries of “Steam Rising”
Informational Text Focus: Evaluating a Summary
Into Action: Use a chart to evaluate the summaries of “Steam Rising: The Revolutionary Power of Paddleboats.”
Summary
Title and Author Topic Main
Ideas in Order
Supporting Details
#2
#1
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Steam Rising: The Revolutionary Power of Paddleboats / Summaries of “Steam Rising”
Informational Text Focus: Evaluating a Summary
As you read “Steam Rising,” note which details support a general understanding of the topic.
By 1833, records show that 1,200 steamboats visited New Orleans alone.
an important supporting
detail=Important details support the article’s main ideas.
Steam Rising: The Revolutionary Power of Paddleboats / Summaries of “Steam Rising”
Writing Skills Focus
Preparing for Timed Writing
Robert Fulton’s role in the development of the steamboat supports the article’s main idea. Where he trained is unimportant. [End of Section]
Robert Fulton gets credit for creating the first “efficient” steamboat.☑
Robert Fulton trained in art in Philadelphia as a teen and then traveled to England.
Which of the following is an important detail—a detail used to support a main idea about steamboats?
Robert Fulton gets credit for creating the first “efficient” steamboat.
Steam Rising: The Revolutionary Power of Paddleboats / Summaries of “Steam Rising”
Writing Skills Focus
Vocabulary
antiquated adj.: old-fashioned.
monopoly n.: total control over a particular business.
prototype n.: first or original model of something.
Steam Rising: The Revolutionary Power of Paddleboats / Summaries of “Steam Rising”
Vocabulary
Antiquated versions of familiar objects—such as telephones, airplanes, and phonographs—can look old-fashioned.
Steam Rising: The Revolutionary Power of Paddleboats / Summaries of “Steam Rising”
Vocabulary
Which is the most antiquated car? b.
a. c.
Steam Rising: The Revolutionary Power of Paddleboats / Summaries of “Steam Rising”
Vocabulary
Which is the most antiquated car? b.
a. c.Where might you find antiquated items?
Steam Rising: The Revolutionary Power of Paddleboats / Summaries of “Steam Rising”
Vocabulary
Inventors practice building models of their inventions. A prototype is a first or original model of something.
This is the prototype of an early steam engine. That old prototype was improved, eventually leading to the development of today’s far more sophisticated engines.
Steam Rising: The Revolutionary Power of Paddleboats / Summaries of “Steam Rising”
Vocabulary
Is prototype used correctly in the following sentence?
Designers are working on the prototype of a new, energy-efficient car that will be available to consumers within five years.
Steam Rising: The Revolutionary Power of Paddleboats / Summaries of “Steam Rising”
Vocabulary
Is prototype used correctly in the following sentence?
The prototype of a car is a model not yet available to buyers. Prototype is used correctly.
Designers are working on the prototype of a new, energy-efficient car that will be available to consumers within five years.
Steam Rising: The Revolutionary Power of Paddleboats / Summaries of “Steam Rising”
Vocabulary
Monopoly comes from two Greek words.monopoly
monos: single, alone pōlein: to sell
Together, monos and pōlein mean “the sole right to sell.” A company that has a monopoly has complete control over a particular business.
Steam Rising: The Revolutionary Power of Paddleboats / Summaries of “Steam Rising”
Vocabulary
If a monopoly owned the television networks, a. one business would
select the programs we could watch
b. several businesses would select the programs we could watch
Steam Rising: The Revolutionary Power of Paddleboats / Summaries of “Steam Rising”
Vocabulary
How might a monopoly affect consumers? [End of Section]
If a monopoly owned the television networks, a. one business would
select the programs we could watch
b. several businesses would select the programs we could watch
Steam Rising: The Revolutionary Power of Paddleboats / Summaries of “Steam Rising”
Vocabulary
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