Giant Research Papers

Please view the Writing Workshop Contract that was sent home today with each student.  Every student must adhere to this contract.  Please note the new, stringent, deadlines for the Research Paper.  This is expected signed and returned tomorrow.

If you have not yet created a turnitin.com account, or enrolled in the class, click here for this classes enrollment information.

Please view the MLA Sample Works Cited Entries for information about how to correctly cite sources on your Works Cited Page.  This was sent home with each student today.

Please view the MLA Sample Paper for examples of how to correctly cite sources in-text.  This was sent home with each student today.

Please view the Plagiarism.org's informative list of all of the ways that a person can plagiarize.  We discussed most of these in class today, and I know that many students hadn't realized that they had plagiarized by not correctly citing their sources in-text or on the Works Cited page.

Please view the details of Writing Workshop.  Please note the in-class responsibilities and the out of class responsibilities.

9th Grade Literature and Composition's rubric can be found here.

American Literature and Composition's rubric can be found here.

Over the course of this week we will have a Writing Workshop.  Today we began by reviewing how to correctly write a Works Cited Page.  Students in 1st and 2nd period had time to work on correcting their Works Cited Page in class.  4th period did not have time to work on this in-class.

Throughout the week we will revisit how to take our now corrected Works Cited Page and correctly cite those sources in-text.  We will talk about how to paraphrase, when it is appropriate to paraphrase, when it is appropriate to quote, and when it is appropriate to analyze and evaluate.  We will go through the rubric section by section in order to facilitate each student earning the highest points possible.

Each student was given a Library pass for the month of November during their lunch to facilitate their learning.  Each student has access to the library resources and the internet at that time.  The deadlines for the resubmission were also though with students who do not have internet at home in mind.  Students have 2 1/2 weeks to find the information they need to correct their papers.  During that lengthy time, it is expected that they will do what is neccessary to earn a better grade.

Activators and Grammar Bites and Research Presentations, Oh my!

Click here for the 9th Grade Activators.

Click here for the American Lit Activators.

Click here for the Grammar Bites.

Remember, Reading Logs are due on Monday!  Remember, I will not accept Reading Logs that don't have dates, totals, or signatures.

Click here if you need to see the Rubric for the American Lit Research Prestations.  I expect this to take no longer than 10 minutes per person.  If you're doing a PowerPoint, you should aim on about 10 slides to make sure you have enough information.

Giant Research Paper Introduction and Purpose

Hello All,

As always in any paper, you need an introduction that introduces what you're going to be talking about in your paper.  The main question you want to answer in your introduction is, "What is the purpose of my paper?"

For 9th Grade Lit, remember your purpose is not to create a biography!  It is to compare and contrast 3 sources of text that all talk about the same topic (whoever you are researching).

For American Lit, remember your purpose is to tell me why this person is important enough to write a paper about.  Let me know them a little, tell me why I should care about them at all.