Instructions Assignment
Write a Summary
Your assignment is to write a summary of The Secret Garden. Remember, when summarizing a fiction text, you should briefly retell the story, including all important details. Refer to your prewriting worksheet Summarizing Fiction to help you organize your summary.

Once complete, submit your summary, as well as the prewriting document Summarizing Fiction.

Use the assignment rubric to help guide your work.

Your final draft should be free from mechanical and grammatical errors, including spelling, capitalization, and punctuation. It should also demonstrate your ability to structure strong academic paragraphs. Use the example below to format your document using size 12 font, double spaced, with an appropriate heading.
Essay Title

This is the start to my essay. If I was writing one for real I would this is where I would be starting my introduction so that people would be getting to know my ideas. This paragraph should end with a thesis stating the main idea and heart of my essay so that people know what I am going to be writing about. Then I will write at least 3 body paragraphs about those ideas that are each structured around giving evidence to support my main idea. Finally, I will write with a conclusion that summarizes all the evidence I have given in my essay and ends with a powerful final though to wrap everything up.

When you are done, submit your assignment for grading.

Rubric
Assignment: Write a Summary (30 points)
Criterion

Exemplary (27-30 points)

High-scoring students will do the following:

Proficient (23-26 points)

Middle-scoring students will do the following:

Emerging (18-22 points)

Low-scoring students will do the following:

Not Evident (below 18 points)

PLANNING DOCUMENT

Points Possible: 4

Planning document is complete.

Planning document is mostly complete.

Planning document is partially complete.

Planning document is incomplete or not submitted.

TEXT SUMMARY—

Introduce topic and summarize information for book review

Points Possible: 10

Present a concise, but thorough, summary. Students include all major plot points, characterizations, and settings. Summary should outline the main details of the book but does not give away the ending.

Present a well-written summary. Student includes most major plot points and basic discussions of setting and character development. Summary outlines most of the main details of the book and does not give away the ending.

Present a basic summary, but do not include all of the main elements. Student summary may be missing information about plot, characters, or setting and does not give away the ending.

Present little to no information about the main details in the book. Student summary does not outline the main plot points and ideas in the book. Gives away the ending.

STRUCTURE—

Summarize text objectively including main idea and relevant details

Points Possible: 6

Provide a structural outline of the story, including main points and relevant details. Students include information that is both complete and concise.

Provide a structural outline of the story, including most of the main points and most of the relevant details. Students include most of the important information, although the wording may be either too short for a thorough description or too wordy for a summary.

Present a basic outline of the story, without following the structure detailed in the lesson. Structure is simple, and information is not complete.

Present a poor example of a summary structure. Do not attempt to follow the organization outline in the lesson.

TONE—

Summarize text objectively including main idea and relevant details

Points Possible: 5

Use a professional tone, using objective language in order to help balance opinions.

Use a more casual tone, with opinions presented subjectively.

Use a very subjective tone. Opinions and ideas are presented as definitive.

Do not attempt to use an objective tone to complete the summary.

Mechanics/Conventions

Points Possible: 5

Follow rules of spelling, capitalization, grammar, and punctuation; three or fewer errors are present.

Mostly follow rules of spelling, capitalization, grammar, and punctuation; 4-6 errors are present.

Show marked inconsistency in following the rules of spelling, capitalization, grammar, and punctuation; 7-10 errors are present.

Fail to follow rules of spelling, capitalization, grammar, and punctuation; over 11 errors are present.

answer: role of women in family

explanation:

women are the pioneers of nation. indian culture attaches great importance to women, comprising half of world’s population. according to a report of secretary general of united nations, women constitute 50% of human resources, the greatest human resource next only to man having great potentiality.

women are the key to sustainable development and quality of life in the family. the varieties of role the women assume in the family are those of wife, leader, administrator, manager of family income and last but not the least important the mother.

1. as a wife

woman is man’s , partner and comrade. she sacrifices her personal pleasure and ambitions, sets standard of morality, relieves stress and strain, tension of husband, maintains peace and order in the household. thereby she creates necessary environment for her male partner to think more about the economic upliftment of family. she is the source of inspiration to man for high endeavour and worth achievements in life.

she stands by him in all the crises as well as she shares with him all successes and attainments. she is the person to whom he turns for love, sympathy, understanding, comfort and recognition. she is the symbol of purity, faithfulness and submission and devotion to her husband.

2. as an administrator and leader of the household:

a well-ordered disciplined household is essential to normal family life. the woman in the family assumes this function. she is the chief executive of an enterprise. she assigns duties among family members according to their interest and abilities and provides resources in-term of equipment and materials to accomplish the job.

she plays a key role in the preparation and serving of meals, selection and care of clothing, laundering, furnishing and maintenance of the house. as an administrator, she organizes various social functions in the family for social development. she also acts as a director of recreation. she plans various recreational activities to meet the needs of young and old members of the family.

3. as a manager of family income:

woman acts as the humble manager of the family income. it is her responsibility to secure maximum return from every pye spent. she always prefers to prepare a surplus budget instead of a deficit budget. she is very calculating loss and gain while spending money. she distributes judiciously the income on different heads such as necessities, comforts and luxuries. the woman in the family also contributes to the family income through her own earning within or outside the home. she has positive contribution to the family income by the work. she herself performs in the home and uses waste products for productive purposes.

4. as a mother:

the whole burden of child bearing and greater part of child rearing task are carried out by the woman in the family. she is primarily responsible for the child’s habit of self-control, orderliness, industriousness, theft or honesty. her contacts with the child during the most formative period of his development sets up his behaviour pattern. she is thus responsible for the maintenance of utmost discipline in the family.

she is the first teacher of the child. she transmits social heritage to the child. it is from mother that the child learns the laws of the race, the manner of men, moral code and ideals. the mother, because of her intimate and sustained contact with the child, she is able to discover and nurture child’s special traits aptitudes and attitudes which subsequently play a key role in the shaping of his personality.

as a mother she is the family health officer. she is very much concerned about the physical wellbeing of every member of the family, the infant, the sickly child, the adolescent youth, senescent parent. she organizes the home and its activities in such a way so that each member of the family has proper food, adequate sleep and sufficient recreation. she made the home a place of quite comfortable and appropriate setting for the children through her talent. besides, she cultivates taste in interior design and arrangement, so that the home becomes an inviting, restful and cheerful place.

the mother is the central personality of the home and the family circle. all the members turn to her for sympathy, understanding and recognition. woman devotes her time, labour and thought for the welfare of the members of the family. for the unity of interacting personalities, man provides the temple woman provides the ceremonies and the atmosphere.

done

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