Applied English for American History I
Paraphrasing and summarizing practice
Paraphrasing = saying the same thing in different words
Summarizing = shortening the information and explaining the main points in your
own words
| Original (from last night's reading) | Example of a Paraphrase |
| "While King was in Boston, a central event of his career took place. " | Something very important in King's professional life happened when he was living in Boston. |
| "According to Mohandas Gandhi, nonviolent resistance was a positive -- not a negative -- technique." | Gandhi believed that a good way was to protest against injustice was to use "nonviolent resistance". |
| " ... in 1954, the Supreme Court of the United States made a very important decision. In the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka", it declared segregation in the nation's public schools to be unconstitutional." | In its 1954 hallmark decision, the U.S. Supreme Court said that public schools in the U.S. could not be segregated. |
| "King was opposed to these suggestions of violence. But despite his condemnation, terrible riots began to occur in major cities across the nation. Thirty-five people died in Watts, Los Angeles, during the riots of August 1965. Two year later, hundreds were injured and over sixty persons killed in the riots of Newark and Detroit. This rejection of his principles worried King. The gains of nonviolence, he feared, would be rapidly undone by a repressive counteraction to the riots." | King opposed the use of violence, but he could not stop horrible riots that happened in large U.S. cities in the mid-1960s. He was afraid that the progress that had been made through non-violent protest would be destroyed. |
| "He [King] was also worried by his country's involvement in the war in Vietnam." | . |
| "He [King] spoke out publically against the [Vietnam] war." | . |
| "On Thursday, June 26, 2003, a small test will occur in Applied English." |