Class Agenda 10-4

1. Quiz #3 - Zeitoun appears to have a complex personality. Find a passage from the reading (1-40) that you believe explains something important about him. For this quiz, follow your instincts to complete the short set of tasks:

a. Identify (find)  the passage
b. summarize the passage using your own words
c. explain the significance of this passage
d. mark down the page number of the passage on another piece of paper

After we turn in the quiz, we will discuss briefly what kinds of passages students chose. 

2. paraphrase 

Let's review the material from They Say / I Say a little. 

Next we're going to review the difference between paraphrase and summary as a class. With a partner, trade the passages you each found. Then choose one to paraphrase. We will listen to a few of these as a class.

3. "direct quotation"

There is a standard approach to giving your readers a direct quotation. This approach is part of a "package" of sentences you'll need to become familiar with in your paragraphs. We will create this "package" of sentences together as a class and in our notes.

a. introduce the text in question.
b. summarize the "context" of the passage (context=area around the quote, the chapter at large, the information nearby on the page, the larger story from which the passage is a part)
c. create a "direct quotation" sentence that contains a (citation).
NOTE: for now let's work with "direct quotations" that are LESS than ONE sentence)
d. paraphrase what you believe is most important from the quote (close-reading: look at the individual words)
e. critical thinking sentences: why does this quote matter? why is it important? what does it remind you of? why should readers be interested in it? how does it connect with ideas you already know? how does it teach your readers about things that might want to know?

4. plagiarism 

There is an important difference between using your own words, and taking the words of someone else with proper attribution or "direct quotation." We will discuss this topic and continue this discussion in future classes.

5. Looking ahead to Essay Assignment One

How can these skills help you with your final drafts?

6. Time permitting: we begin the "6 Degrees" of warming