For the next SIX WEEKS we will be learning about Shakespeare, the Elizabethan Era, the Globe Theatre and reading Romeo & Juliet.
ALL class work in included in YOUR ROMEO & JULIET PACKET. /uploads/2/1/9/6/21962002/rj_unit_packet.docx If you lose this packet, you are responsible for printing another one. Bring this packet EVERY DAY to class. It is worth over 500 formative points!! Scavenger Hunt 2/24: Completed in class; some information can be found below. Additional Background Information 2/25: Use the literature book Dramatic Literary Terms PP + Notes 2/26: Here is a copy of the PP. Iambic Pentameter & Sonnet Notes 2/27: Here is a copy of these notes.
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Start your conclusion by restating your thesis. Rephrase your thesis from your introduction.
For example if your thesis in the introduction is: Even though some think medical marijuana will be abused by the average person, medical marijuana should be legalized because it is natural and is proven to help a variety of medical conditions. Then you could rephrase it for your conclusion into: Medical marijuana should be legalized because it is proven to help multiple medical conditions and is a natural medicine. Then, you need to leave the reader with a call to action. How can the reader get involved in your cause? What can they do to create change? For example a call to action for climate change: To stop global warming, start recycling or consider riding a bike to work instead of a driving a car. Try leaving the reader with something to think about or a concrete action plan to follow! Here are examples for how to write the body paragraphs of your essay.
Below is an example of the COUNTER ARGUMENT paragraph (the 4th paragraph in your essay). You are presenting the counter argument to your topic, but then arguing against it to prove why your opinion is still correct. Even though some people might say Standardized testing are good, reliable, and objective measures of student achievement, they aren’t. The Brookings Institution found that, “50-80% of year-over-year test score improvements were temporary and “cause fluctuations that had nothing to do with long-term changes in learning.”’ Also, although some say Standardized tests aren’t narrowing curriculum, they are. Since 2001, 44% of school districts had cut the time of science, social studies, and arts by 145 minutes per week to focus on reading and math. Aren’t schools supposed to be teaching us to be well-rounded? Finally, some say increased testing doesn’t force teachers to encourage “drill n’ kill” learning, but it does. Instruction time is being consumed drastically by test preparation. Some schools put more than one quarter of the year’s instruction time for preparation. For example, some schools in NYC imposed extra measures of math and reading to avoid being shut down. Click here to find some examples of attention getters and introductions.
Your outline is due at the beginning of class tomorrow (2/18). After that, you will lose 5pts per day it is late.
Here are the directions for writing the thesis and topic sentences. The last step for the research EO is to create an essay outline in MLA format. Here is the rubric that will be used to assess your outline. Below is part of a sample outline. In-Text Citations
1. Follow every single direct quote or paraphrased information. 2. Either the author's last name or the "article title" (if there isn't an author) are put in parenthesis at the end of the sentence, before the period. Example of a direct quote when the source has an author: "The research unit includes finding credible sources, citing them, writing annotated bibliographies, and creating an outline " (Muldoon). Example of a paraphrase when the source has an author: Finding reliable sources and composing annotated bibliographies are part of the research unit (Muldoon). Example of a direct quote when the source has NO author: "Video games cause aggressive behaviors" ("Do Video Games Cause Violence?"). For an article from a website, your citation should look like this:
Last name, First name. "Article Title." Website Title. Publisher, Publishing Date. Web. 3 Feb 2015. 1. Last name, First name of the Author. If there isn't an author listed, then skip that part and start the citation with the article title. You will find the author either at the top or bottom of the article. 2. Make sure the article title is in quotation marks and that each important letter is capitalized. 3. The website title is the part before the domain. for example: www.time.com/violence (Time is the website title.) www.healthykids.org/vaccinations/new/health (Healthy Kids is the website tite) 4. The publisher will be found before the copyright symbol © at the very bottom of the page. (It will probably be similar to the website title.) 5. The publishing date will either be at the top of the article or at the very bottom, followed by the © symbol. 6. Web = This just means you accessed the source through the internet. 7. Access date = The day you first looked at the source. |
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