Summary Practice — Nason

Berliner, Wendy. “’Schools Are Killing Curiosity’: Why We Need to Stop Telling Children to Shut up and Learn.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 28 Jan. 2020, https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/jan/28/schools-killing-curiosity-learn.

The main idea of the text “‘Schools are killing curiosity’: why we need to stop telling children to shut up and learn,” Wendy Berliner makes the claim that the way schools are set up has limited children’s curiosity and states that kids that are curious are the actual smart ones. The writer brings up how smart kids in class see curiosity as a “risk to their result.” The students are afraid that if they are curious they will have lower grades. the author believes that smart kids are naturally curious. The author claims that in kindergarten, the kids who are more curious end up performing better in class. The author mentions how kids are born curious and how it is important that we maintain it. Matt Caldwell, the headteacher at his school, says that curious kids see the world more creatively. he states, “What children love is to copy what adults are doing with objects. What people and objects do makes them curious about their world.” This supports the claim that curiosity is an essential part of learning because it makes you want to learn new things more deeply.

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  1. OK — pretty good Nason!

    Now get the first sentence correct: You need title, author name, and MI. THREE THINGS always in the first sentence. LOOK AGAIN AT THE handout HOW TO WRITE A SUMMARY that we used in class. Use this handout for every summary you will write in the RAB.

    Captialize every word in a title.

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