Today's Menu ~ March 31 and April 1

Today's announcements.

Notice any gold on the trees yet?

"Nothing Gold Can Stay"
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leafs a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

BLOG Topics...so far:

1. St. Patrick's Day...or Spring Break
2. "Nature's first green is gold."
3. Book review for your out-of-class read.

Read these articles:

• Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing
• Paraphrasing
• How to Recognize Plagiarism...oh, yes, teachers have this unique ability!

RESEARCH PAPER...continues.

• Print your sources so that you may annotate them.
• Develop a preliminary outline for your part of the class' research paper outline. This means further breaking down your assigned Roman numeral into A's and B's. Click here for information on outlines and click here to see a sample of an outline (refer to page one of the link only).
• When you have determined your subheadings, go into the Google Doc and insert/type them under your assigned Roman numeral.
• HOMEWORK: Draft letter "A" of your Roman numeral for the next class time.
• Parenthetical Citation: Check here for examples and here for a short sample paper.

Vocabulary:

• Chapter 1 quiz today!
• Study chapter 2 for next time.

HOMEWORK:

1. Draft "A" of your assigned Roman numeral.
2. Study chapter two vocabulary.

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