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Thursday, February 5th

2/4/2015

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Objectives
1. Understand how to properly set up quotes and use  parenthetical documentation (in-text citation)
2. Outline your essay



Announcements
  • Honors expo tonight!  5:30-7:30 student union at FLC
  • Book club honors: See homework page for Fahrenheit Seminar Prep guidelines!
  • Check in on workload and deadlines...
  • Lit Circle binders have some feedback on your notes. Feel free to pull that stuff out of the binder now that grades are done.  A NOTE ON THE WEIGHT OF THIS GRADE


AGENDA
Energy and Place work time
A. Finish Stations from yesterday
B. Introduction to assigned reading (DUE next Monday, 2/9)
  • Link to the reading: "The Land Ethic" by Aldo Leopold
  • vocab overview + discussion questions (to help guide your reading/comprehension of the essay)
  • You don't HAVE to annotate it BUT we will have a quiz where you have to apply the ideas in this reading to another speech by another environmental activist and you'll need to not only understand the ideas in "The Land Ethic" but you'll also need to cite evidence from it to defend your claims on the quiz.  

Happiness and Meaning work time
**Check-in:
  • Fist to Five: How confident are you on how to properly introduce quotes?
  • Fist to Five: How confident are you on how to use in-text citations?
  • Who knows how to "block-indent" quotes?

1. Mini-lesson on works cited and in-text citations + Time to draft essay
  • Parenthetical documentation and works cited page
  • Block Quotes 



2. Show Ashley your thesis statement by the end of class today!!

Resources
  • Parenthetical Documentation and Works Cited Page
  • Setting up quotes (refresher!)
  • Block Quotes (for quotes that are 4 lines or longer!)
 
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