Bell Work: You have 5 minutes to: Take out your vocabulary cards, composition book, and phone. Log in to my website and open your article. On the vocabulary cards, look up each word and add the part(s) of speech to the definition side of the card. Have your composition book ready to write in. (If you don’t have a composition book, you are creating a lot of work for yourself because you are going to have to copy everything we do into it when you finally get it. It will become a grade.

MLA Format for online resources Basic Style for Citations of Electronic Sources (Including Online Databases) Here are some common features you should try and find before citing electronic sources in MLA style. Not every Web page will provide all of the following information. However, collect as much of the following information as possible both for your citations and for your research notes: Author and/or editor names (if available) Article name in quotation marks (if applicable) Title of the Website, project, or book in italics. (Remember that some Print publications have Web publications with slightly different names. They may, for example, include the additional information or otherwise modified information, like domain names [e.g..com or.net].) Any version numbers available, including revisions, posting dates, volumes, or issue numbers. Publisher information, including the publisher name and publishing date. Take note of any page numbers (if available). Medium of publication. Date you accessed the material. URL (if required, or for your own personal reference; MLA does not require a URL).

An Article in a Web Magazine Provide the author name, article name in quotation marks, title of the Web magazine in italics, publisher name, publication date, medium of publication, and the date of access. Remember to use n.p. if no publisher name is available and n.d. if no publishing date is given. Example: Bernstein, Mark. "10 Tips on Writing the Living Web." A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites. A List Apart Mag., 16 Aug Web. 4 May 2009.

Summarizing Expository Text Steps in Summarizing: 1. Read the selection carefully, more than once. Before you begin to write, make sure you understand what the selection says. 2. Highlight or make a list of the most important information including the main ideas. – Use your own words in explaining anything. – Do not include your own opinion. – Do not change the author’s meaning. 3. Read your summary. Can someone who has not read the selection understand the main points? 4. For our “summary” we are going to use bullet points, so get the main ideas down to 5 to 10 bullet point ideas that you will explain to the class.

Citing Textual Evidence 1) Use parentheses to denote the citation within the text. The item appearing first in the citation on the Works Cited page should designate the parenthetical citation. Usually, this is the author’s last name or the title of the article or section. Include the page number of the cited material (if there is one.) These two elements should be separated by a space, not by a comma or any other punctuation mark. 2) In the case of a long article or section title, use a shortened version in the parenthetical citation. You should shorten the citation to the first noun in the entry. The title “Screaming Japanese Schoolgirls Overturn Greenspan’s Bus” can be cited as (“Screaming Japanese Schoolgirls”), for example.

Group Work today, as a team: Write all of these in your composition book Create an accurate citation for your article. Identify the main points of the article (in bullet points). (Around 5-10 main points) Determine vocabulary to define. (At least 5) Rate the credibility of the source by using the C.R.A.A.P. criteria.

Homework Complete writing out the information needed for your presentation which you will be creating tomorrow.

Responsibilities for the Presentation Person 1 is in charge of the slide with the accurate MLA citation of the article. Person 2 is in charge of the slide with 5-10 main points made by the article. Person 3 is in charge of the slide analyzing the 5 criteria of reliability of the source. Person 4 is in charge of the slide defining 5-10 vocabulary words from the article and how they are used in the article.  If you only have 3 people in your group, Person 1 does jobs 1 and 4.  If you have 5 people in your group, Person 2 and Person 5 split up the responsibility for the main points made by the article.

During the presentations You will each be responsible for the following during each group’s presentation: 1.Write down the citation (and in-text citation) for each article because you will be creating a Works Cited page for your essay and will be using in-text citations. 2.Write down at least three main points (more is better) from each presentation because you have to use something from each article in your essay. 3.Take note of any problems of reliability for each article that you may want to mention in your essay. 4.Take note of any vocabulary words you may want to use in your essay.

Writing the essay You will write an essay based on what you have learned from the nine articles summarized by the groups, synthesizing the information. Use textual examples (specific support) from each of the articles. You will need to make personal connections and respond to the ideas and may agree or disagree with particular ideas of the authors of the articles.