Animal Defences Summarizing Task- Charli Buick

 In 9MY English with Mr McCartney, we are learning to summarize. We have done activities focusing on summarizing such as, writing short stories and having a set amount of words to narrow it down to, reading text and summarizing it and finding information about animals defenses and writing a short summary on how they do it. 

The summarizing task I'm going to share with you is the animal defenses task. Mr McCartney wrote about a few strange animals with interesting defenses and we had to highlight 6-7 key words that summarize the information about the animal. Next we had to find 3 more of our own animals and summarize information about each. I choose to work with the Sea Cucumber, Red-Lipped Batfish and the Stone fish.

Here is my summary of the Stonefish...

stonefish are the world's most venomous fish that inject venom from their fin spines that can kill an adult person in less than an hour.

From this task I learnt all about the Stonefish and improved on my summarizing ability.