In-Text Citations

Okay - let's talk about in-text citations:

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MLA Format

Today we need to discuss MLA format.

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Put the following in proper MLA format without using a citation machine:

1)   The novel To Kill A Mockingbird

2)   Your history textbook

3)   Your AP Language textbook: One Hundred Great Essays

4)   http://www.learner.org/workshops/primarysources/coldwar/docs/lippman.html

5)   http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/speeches/malcolm_x_ballot.html

6)   http://www.starwars.com/films/star-wars-episode-vii-the-force-awakens

7)   The song “Forever Young” by Bob Dylan on the album Planet Waves

8)   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45G1vGuqVvs

9)   http://www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com/historical/speeches/roosevelts-day-of-infamy-speech-1941-12-08

10)                   “Line of Fire” article in Time from April 20 2015.  You might need to go to the library to get this article.

Thursday

Today - we will be doing another "open question" in order for you to perfect it.  We will discuss it and rewrite it tomorrow.

The hope is to get to write a "7" on the open question.

Friday - we will look at some videos pertaining to the AP Language test.

Wednesday

Finish reading "The Communist Manifesto".

Write a precis on it.

Monday

Today, we will look over your analysis essays, discuss the open question and read (perhaps our last in-class reading), Karl Marx: "The Communist Manifesto".

HW: Practice "Open Question"

Analysis Question

Today we are going to read three essays:

"On Ben Franklin's Virtues" by D.H. Lawrence
"Nonverbal/Verbal" by Leonard Shlain
"Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan.

HOMEWORK:

Choose one essay and write an essay in which you:

   Analyze rhetorical devices used by an author to achieve his or her purpose

Thursday

Today we are going to read 2-3 essays.

HOMEWORK:

1 - the handout on the analysis essay, and choose one essay that we read in class and

o       Analyze rhetorical devices used by an author to achieve his or her purpose