2. Topic: Focus Aspect #  Your note cards should include your topic and one of the focus aspects at the top left.  At the top right, write the source number that corresponds to the appropriate Works Cited card.  At the bottom right, write a parenthetical citation where the information was found. (author p#)

3. Taking Notes: 1.List the main points from a long text in your own words. 2.Quote significant passages only if it’s from a primary source (interview, diary, memoir, autobiography or a literary source (novel or poem).

4. Quote Significant Passages from Primary or Literary Sources ONLY!  Be careful to copy a significant passage word for word!  Use quotation marks to show what words were copied.  Use an ellipses to show where you omitted words in a quote (but make sure the quote makes sense without those words!)

5. Quotes – Using Ellipses  If you omit a few words, use 3 dots:  “The speaker’s obstinate carriage, square coat, square legs, square shoulders…all helped the emphasis” (Dickens 1).  If you omit sentences, use 4 dots  “The scene was a plain, bare, monotonous vault of a schoolroom….The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present… swept with their eyes the inclined plane of little vessels then and there arranged in order, ready to have imperial gallons of facts poured into them until they were full to the brim” (Dickens 1).

6. Quotes within your Quote  If you are quoting text that already includes dialogue in quotes, change the dialogue quotes to single quotations:  Example: “’Girl number twenty,’ said Mr. Gradgrind, squarely pointing with his square forefinger, ‘I don’t know that girl.’” (Dickens 2)

7. How would you punctuate this and add a citation (from page 449 of your World History textbook)? In school, young Hitler was known as a ringleader. One of his teachers recalled, “He demanded of his fellow pupils their unqualified obedience.”

8. Parenthetical Citations  Always cite your source in parentheses at the end of:  Your notes  Any passage that you quote  See the Parenthetical Citation handout or DMHS Style Manual (p. 22-26) for how to cite sources.

9. Works Cited  Ellis, Elisabeth Gaynor, and Anthony Esler. World History: The Modern World. Boston: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007.  Metropolis. Dir. Fritz Lang. 1927. DVD. Kino Intl. Corp., 2002.

10. NOW – Create Note Cards!  Browse the World History textbook and locate the sections that address your topic  Decide which focus aspects are covered  Create Note Cards with these focus aspect headings and the source number  Cite the author(s) and page number where the information was found  Write your Name, Period#, B17 on the back of each card