Summary paragraphs

At the end of our lesson about Yellow Fever, each student was to write a paragraph explaining the importance of Dr. Walter Reed. Students recently learned the new format for writing summary paragraphs. They need to have a main idea, at least three detail sentences, a writing device (simile or metaphor), and a conclusion. The parts of the paragraph are to be labeled, and you can see the labels circled in the example shown below. After the paragraph example, I've also shown some of the notes the student used to write the paragraph.