Book talk & Indie read. SWIC Registration Dual Credit paperwork.  Quickwrite/Notes #9:  Article – “I’ve talked with teenage boys abut sexual assault for 20 years.  This is what they still don’t know” by Laurie Halse Anderson. Quickwrite/Notes #10:  Article – 1st hour “Why Are Young Americans Killing Themselves” by Dr. Richard A. Friedman : 2nd hour “The Boys Are Not All Right” by Michael Ian Black : 6th hour “Opinion: My Month Without the Internet” by Diana Wagman.

Quick review/lesson:  Add in-text citations for the quotes you pulled from today’s articles.  Note that to get the page numbers correct, you will need to access the online article and then use the page number from the print view window.

Updates:

• sample student memory books that you can take a look at for the next couple of weeks
• return your student release so Mrs. C can record for work on her National Boards
• Office hour passes for the semester – Big projects this semester; seek help when you need it.

If you are confused or just want a deeper understanding of MLA citation, check the videos below.

Citation: Why Multiple Styles? – get behind the “why” we cite and “why” this style for humanites disciplines

MLA Style: In-Text Citations (8th Ed., 2016) – basic in-text citing

Sidenote:  For your cited commentary, we read/viewed both print sources and video sources.  If the way the piece was published is video (not print), you’ll need to in-text cite using timestamp information instead of page numbers.  See below:

Time-based media sources

When creating in-text citations for media that has a runtime, such as a movie or podcast, include the range of hours, minutes and seconds you plan to reference. For example: (00:02:15-00:02:35).  (Purdue OWL MLA Style and Formatting Guide)

MLA Style: List of Works Cited (8th Ed., 2016) – works cited details (we’ll look at this next week)

 

Book talk & Indie read.  Quickwrite/Notes #7:  TEDTalk – “Selfies and Seeing Ourselves” – Christina Balch.  Quickwrite/Notes #8:  TEDTalk – 1st & 2nd hour “How to Raise a Black Son in America” by Clint Smith: 6th hour “A Solution to Gun Violence Found in US HIstory” by David Farrell.

Quick review/lesson:  Add in-text citations to the quotes you pulled from essays yesterday in Quickwrites #5 & 6.  Then, learn how to in-text cite the quotes you pulled from videos today in Quickwrites #7 & 8 (2nd hour – this part will be tomorrow).

Updates:

• sample student memory books that you can take a look at for the next couple of weeks
• return your student release so Mrs. C can record for work on her National Boards

Indie read.  This week:  critical reading of sources with 4 part note practice.  Quickwrite/Notes #5:  Essay “11:20” by Michael Paterniti.  Quickwrite/Notes #6:  Essay : 1st hour “In Our Genes” by Hannah Moskowitz : 2nd hour “White Rage” by Carol Anderson : 6th hour “Binge” by Tyler Oakley

Updates:

• sample student memory books that you can take a look at for the next couple of weeks
• return your student release so Mrs. C can record for work on her National Boards

 

Book trailers & Indie read. Memory Book Info for 2020.  Data analysis from last semester’s post-its: how do you choose what to read?  when and where do you read?

 

NBCT Release Forms – please bring these back to Mrs. C on Monday (if you didn’t return them already).

Book talk & Indie Read.  Quickwrite #4:  Your latest (or most memorable) trip down the “rabbit hole” – What have you gotten just a little (or a lot) obsessed with?  MLA Basics w/ practice.

MLA CITATIONS the basics

Your note/practice page should have attempts at:

• regular quote w/ in-text citation
• regular quote w/ author mention w/ in-text citation
• paraphrase w/ in-text citation
• paraphrase w/ quthor mention w/ in-text citation

*Use the “Words of the Millenium” article to create your practice examples.