October 21 Classwork and Homework

Classwork

Today we reviewed the vocabulary work done in class with the substitute yesterday and worked in our presentation groups.  Once in our presentation groups, our goal was to accomplish the following:

1. Share contact information with each other
2. Decide what you are going to teach the class about your topic (select 3-5 sub-topics)
3. Assign group roles (who is presenting what, who is taking lead for powerpoint/visual aid, who is keeping track of time, who is checking in with everyone, etc...)
4. Decide what kind of visual aid you will use (if you are going to use a powerpoint, try using google docs or prezi which multiple users can edit online)
5. Identify Areas of further research
6. Begin working on presentation, further research, and visual aid

Homework

1. Study Unit 4 Vocabulary for Friday's Test
2. Work on your presentation
3. If you did not turn in your INDIVIDUAL works cited page today, turn in late so you can get project credit for it.  It is not eligible for homework points anymore.
4. If you did not turn in a source that you read AND annotated, turn in late so you can get project credit for it.  It is not eligible for homework points anymore.

Important Dates

Friday, October 24 - Unit 4 Vocabulary Test

Monday, October 27 - Visual Aid and Works Cited for presentations due

Tuesday, October 28 - Presentation Day 1

Wednesday, October 29 - Presentation Day 2

How to Annotate a Text/ Annotating Tips

October 17 Classwork and Homework

Classwork

We were in the LRC focusing on doing our own, independent, individual research related to our assigned topic for the Odyssey Research Project.  We received and went over the following handouts: Odyssey Research Project Calendar, MLA Citation Guide, Homework Due Monday.

Homework Due Monday

1.     Annotated source – Print out one of the sources you found.  Read it and annotate it.  I will collect it on Monday and return it to you on Tuesday.

2.     Individual Bibliography/Works Cited – This must be TYPED and follow all MLAguidelines.  You MUST have a total of 5 sources.  One of your sources must be a print source.

a.     If you are using electronic sources you must include the source’s url (web site address) in the citation.  Use the following (taken from the Purdue Owl website) as an example for how your web citations should look:

For instructors or editors who still wish to require the use of URLs, MLA suggests that the URL appear in angle brackets after the date of access. Break URLs only after slashes.

Editor, author, or compiler name (if available). Name of Site. Version number. Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sponsor or publisher), date of resource creation (if available). Medium of publication. Date of access. <url>.

Aristotle. Poetics. Trans. S. H. Butcher. The Internet Classics Archive. Web Atomic and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 13 Sept. 2007. Web. 4 Nov. 2008. ‹http://classics.mit.edu/›.

Odyssey Research Project Calendar

Annotation Tips