1. Writing the rough draft of your title page Fold a sheet of notebook paper in half. (Length wise) Open the paper. The crease of the paper is the center. Your information should be centered on the page. Center your title on the third blue line. Capitalize all important words in your title. Skip two lines center the word by. Center your first and last name Skip 2/3 of page ( skip 10 mores spaces) center the title of the course - 7 th Grade ELA. Skip two spaces center the teacher’s name – Mrs. Brown. Skip two spaces center the date – February 15, 2011 Use page 14 of Rookie’s Guide when you type the final draft of your title page.

2. The Dangerous Twister by Beth Brown 7 th Grade ELA Mrs. Brown February 15, 2011

3. Writing the rough draft of the works cited page Organize your works cited cards alphabetically by the author’s last name. If the author’s name is not given, alphabetize by the first major word in the title, omitting A, An, and The. Get out a sheet of notebook paper. Center on the top blue line the words - Works Cited. Each entry should start at the left margin; additional lines for that entry should be indented. Use Rookie’s Guide page 15 to type your final draft.

4. Works Cited Alvarez, Gloria. "Teacher Recalls Land of Rising Sun; Audience Hears Tales of Japan." East New Orleans Picayune 14 Oct. 2001: 4. Burgum, Edwin Berry, ed. The New Criticism: An Anthology of Modern Aesthetics and Literary Criticism. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1930. Camus, Albert. The Stranger. Trans. Stuart Gilbert. New York: A. A. Knopf, 1946. Gill, Brendan. "B.C. to A.D." The New Yorker 58.13 (17 May 1982): 110-115. Vol. 25. Detroit: Gale Research, 1983. 173-178. "Once a Jerk, Always a Jerk - and the Whole Town Loves Him." The Charlotte Observer 8 Oct. 2002: 10A. Reider, Noriko T. "The Appeal of Kaidan Tales of the Strange." Asian Folklore Studies 59.2 (2000): 265-284. Academic Search Premier. Web. 6 Feb. 2002. <http://eresources.lib.unc.edu /eid/description.php? resourceID=1265>. Willett, Perry, ed. “Victorian Women Writers Project.” Indiana U., Apr. 1997. Web. 16 Apr. 2009..