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Contributor: Jessica Buch. Lesson ID: 10171
Did you know the entire city of Chicago burned down many years ago? Learn about the fire and its aftermath, and how to sequence and summarize a story with charts, timelines, and your amazing brain!
Image by Currier and Ives courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society, via Wikimedia Commons, is in the public domain.
In this lesson, you will read about the Great Chicago Fire and how taking notes of the sequence of events can help you understand, summarize, and tell stories!
This happened many years ago in the city of Chicago! There are many theories, or ideas, of how the fire started. The passage you will read today describes what happened after the fire.
When we read a story, usually there is an order to the events that happen in the story. We call the order of events a sequence.
A sequence helps us connect the order of the events and summarize, or retell, the story. It's a great way to remember the details of a story, too!
Let's think about a sequence in your life. For example, in the morning, you probably wake up, eat breakfast, brush your teeth, then continue on your day. Doing things in a specific order is called a sequence.
Let's dive in to the Got It? section!
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