2.  Friday, May 20 th is last day for seniors  6 weeks remaining = 30 school days

3.  Friday, April 29 th is the absolute last day that I will accept make-up work; NO EXCEPTIONS  If the work is missing due to absence, no penalty will be assessed  If the work is missing due to not turning in the assignment, you can earn no higher than a 75

4.  Satire and Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”  Satire project (test grade)  Demonstrative or Informative speech (test grade)  SLO (test grade)  Career Readiness Portfolio (final exam; 20% of final grade)  Final extra credit opportunity

5.  Due final exam day  May 18 th – 6 th and 7 th periods  May 19 th – 3 rd, 4 th, and 5 th periods  May 20 th – 1 st and 2 nd periods  Portfolio contains 7 components:  Resume  Cover letter  Interview questions  Letters  Career research paper  Lease and questions  Mock interview (takes place on exam day)

6.  In room 613 Tuesday and Wednesday (small computer lab; only 18 computers)  First draft must be uploaded to TurnItIn.com by no later than 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, April 12 th.  To upload paper:  Go to www.turnitin.comwww.turnitin.com  Select create account in upper right hand corner  Create account  Enroll in class using class ID and password

7.  1 st period  Class id – 11112316  Password – ELHS2016  3 rd period  Class id – 11112318  Password – ELHS2016  5 th period  Class id – 11112320  Password – ELHS2016

8.  6 th period  Class id – 11112322  Password – ELHS2016  7 th period  Class id – 11112323  Password – ELHS2016  Once you have enrolled in the class, follow directions to upload paper

9.  By 11:59 p.m. on April 14 th, you should have peer edited the paper that was assigned to you on TurnItIn.com  You may do the final edit of your paper after 12:01 p.m. on Friday, April 15 th (We will have the lap top computers in class that day)

10.  Final draft must be uploaded by 11:59 p.m. on Friday, April 15 th  The assignment is set up to not take late assignments and will not allow you to upload after 11:59 p.m.  If your assignment is late, you must email me a copy of your paper in a word document as an attachment to Cathy.Edwards@henry.k12.ga.us. You must also bring me a printed copy. (You may not share it with me from Google docs.)Cathy.Edwards@henry.k12.ga.us

11.  Do NOT use 1 st person (I, me, we, us, my)  Do NOT use 2 nd person (you, your)  Do NOT use abbreviations (use Literature instead of Lit.)  Do NOT use contractions (use cannot instead of can’t)

12.  The titles of novels, plays, and long poems should be italicized in your paper.  Example – The Great Gatsby  Example – The Tragedy of Macbeth  Examples – Beowulf, The Odyssey, Paradise Lost  The titles of poems and short stories should be put in quotations in your paper.  Example – “The Most Dangerous Game”  Examples – “The Lamb” or “The Tyger” or “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

13.  Paper should be typed in Times New Roman 12 point font  Do not abbreviate in header  Date should be due date of paper and formatted as day month year (no abbreviations and no punctuation)  15 April 2016  Paper should be double-spaced throughout (first page example) For more formatting help, visit the Perdue Online Writing Lab

14.  An in-text citation goes in parenthesis immediately following the quote and before the final punctuation mark  For a novel, use the author’s last name and the page number  “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”(Fitzgerald 180).  For a play, use the Act, scene and line numbers  “Fair is foul, and foul is fair:/Hover through the fog and filthy air” (1.1.12-13).

15.  For a longer quote (more than 4 typed lines)  Step 1: Introduce the block quote with a colon.  Step 2: Begin a new line (tap enter)  Step 3: Indent one inch from the left margin.  Step 4: Type the quote without adding quotation marks.  Step 5: Parenthetical citation without a period. Lady Macbeth delivers the following soliloquy: The raven himself is hoarse / That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan / Under the battlements. Come, you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, / And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full / Of direst cruelty! (1.5.36-41)

16.  For a poem, use the author’s last name and line(s) number  “Little Lamb who made thee / Dost thou know who made thee” (Blake 1-2).  For a longer quote (more than 3 lines of poetry)  Step 1: Introduce the block quote with a colon.  Step 2: Begin a new line (tap enter)  Step 3: Indent one inch from the left margin.  Step 4: Type the quote without adding quotation marks.  Step 5: Parenthetical citation without a period.

17. The speaker questions if the lamb and the tyger were created by the same person: When the stars threw down their spears And water'd heaven with their tears: Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee? (Blake 17-20)  For more help with MLA in-text citation rules, visit the Perdue Online Writing Lab

18.  For an article or journal, use the author’s last name if available; include page number is applicable.  Lucking, David. "Brutus's Reasons: Julius Caesar And The Mystery Of Motive." English Studies 91.2 (2010): 119-132. Literary Reference Center. Web. 10 Apr. 2016.  (Lucking)

19.  For an article or journal with no author use a shortened title of the work; include page number is applicable.  "Brutus's Reasons: Julius Caesar And The Mystery Of Motive." English Studies 91.2 (2010): 119-132. Literary Reference Center. Web. 10 Apr. 2016.  (“Brutus’s Reasons”)

20.  A works cited page must be included  Entries should be double-spaced in alphabetical order with a hanging indent (works cited page example)  For more help formatting a works cited page, visit the Perdue Online Writing Lab