This document outlines roles for group members to prepare a summary of a reading. It describes 5 roles: 1. Summarizer - Prepare a 3 minute summary conveying the key points and main highlights. 2. Questioner - Write down questions about the reading. 3. Literary Luminary - Locate special sections or quotations and reasons they are important. 4. Connector - Find connections between the reading and personal experiences or current events. 5. Self-assessment - Members rate their understanding of the material on a 1-10 scale.

1. Wun ChangJunior High School ~ Ms. Yu-Fen JoJo Huang
Martin Luther King Jr.
Summarizer
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Your job is to prepare a brief summary of the reading. The other members of your
group will be counting on you to give a three-minute statement that conveys the key points,
the main highlights and the essences of the reading assignment.
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2. Wun ChangJunior High School ~ Ms. Yu-Fen JoJo Huang
Nelson Mandela
Questioner
Group___________ Name_______________ p_____ ~ p_____
Your job is to write down a few questions that you have about this part of the book.
What were you wondering about while you were reading? Did you have questions about
what was happening? What a word meant? What a character did? What was going to
happen next? Why the author used a certain style? Or what the whole thing meant? Just
try to notice what you were wondering while you were reading. Then, just jot down some
of those questions either along the way or after you are finished.
 Questions based on today’s reading:
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How much do you understand? 1~10, score youself. __________

3. Wun ChangJunior High School ~ Ms. Yu-Fen JoJo Huang
Martin Luther King Jr.
Literary Luminary
Group___________ Name_______________ p_____ ~ p_____
Your job is to locate a few special sections or quotations in the text. The idea is to help
people go back to some especially interesting, powerful, funny, puzzling, or important
sections of the reading and think about them more carefully.
Page Words/Sentences Reasons
How much do you understand? 1~10, score youself. __________

4. Wun ChangJunior High School ~ Ms. Yu-Fen JoJo Huang
Martin Luther King Jr.
Connector
Group___________ Name_______________ p_____ ~ p_____
Your job is to find connections between the book and you, or between the book and
the wider world. This means connecting the reading to your own past experiences, to
happenings at school or in the community, to stories in the news, to similar events at other
times and places, to other people or problems that you careabout.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life Someone You Admire

5. Wun ChangJunior High School ~ Ms. Yu-Fen JoJo Huang
How much do you understand? 1~10, score youself. __________