Thursday, October 19, 2017
10/19/17 Blog
Today we started out by Mr. Rivers greeting us and telling us that we needed to continue to work on our summer reading essays. After he told us that they were due 1 week from now, started to take some notes on citations. These are important in order to correctly give credit to another person. We learned that citations are generally used in MLA format, which is Author, Title of source, title of container (The place where you accessed it), other contributors, version, number, publisher, publication date, location. Also, we talked about how there a=different ways to make MLA format. One of the ways is to put it like this: Film title. Director (Dir.). First name. Last name. Container. Distributor. Year of release. Another way to do this is to do this: Director. First name. Last name. Film title. Container. Distributor. Year of release. We talked out using these in our summer reading essay and Mr. Rivers told us to come up with examples of these citations with No Country for Old Men and Wall-E. Our group came up with this for Wall-E citation: Wall-E. Dir. Andrew. Stanton. Sparta High School. Pixar. 2008. We also came up this for No Country for Old Men: No Country for Old Men. Dirs. Ethan Coen and Joel Coen. Netflix. Miramax. 2007. After we came up with these citations, we discussed them in class and then took more notes on citations. We took notes on evidence and how to correctly cite it. We could use evidence by "quoting it" or paraphrasing it, or putting it into your own words. You could do it like so: Your words, "quote" maybe more of your own words (citation), Your words, "quote with a complete sentence" (citation), Your words "quote" more "quote" of your "words" (citation). We also learned that block quotes need to be indented with 1 tab and you should introduce characters in block quotes with their name and a colon. We will probably learn about this tomorrow.
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Lots of good information about how to integrate evidence in here. We talked about these ideas in class, so your analysis is a very accurate record for what we did in class. Consider how you could have used paragraphs to break this information up into more manageable pieces and therefore produce something more clearly/deliberately organized. Don’t forget about the second half of the assignment! This has no extension, and no extension is no good! We need that information to get a sense of how this learning has anything to do with the world at large. MLA is tricky, sure, but how might any of these ideas help you to find success outside our classroom?
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