Bell Ringer #27
 What is plagiarism?
 What are some ways plagiarism can be avoided?
 Why should we promote “academic honesty” (not
cheating and recognizing others for their work) at
Northview?
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Reluctant God Summative
Assessment
 You will be creating a brochure about Ancient Egypt.
 You will have some flexibility with the content of your brochure,
and how you make connections to the novel.
 You must conduct research on your selected topics using the
databases provided by the school district, print books from the
media center, and reputable internet links.
 You must have a minimum of THREE sources (1 print, 1
electronic database, 1 internet site)
 These must be cited in MLA format and attached to your
brochure
 You must also submit a book review of the novel
Research Question and
Plan
 A break down of due dates:
 You will be selecting a research question (example:
what kinds of clothing did ancient Egyptians wear) to
help guide you in your research.
 This question will be due at the end of next class (time
will be provided in class)
 You will need to get source cards for all three sources
 Due next week after research time in class and Media
Center
 Final Product must be printed and turned in by 12/17
or 12/18 depending on your class day
Understanding Our IB
Rubrics
 We will be creating a task-specific rubric to align with our
IB rubrics
 What this means is that we will see what the IB folks say, then
give specific examples of what it would look like in your
travel brochure
 I will divide you into groups
 Each group will have four minutes to decide what each level
of achievement would look like, and what the difference
would be between the numbers in the same category (i.e.
what does a four look like verses a five)
 We will type up and post our rubric on my website. I am
going to hold you to the standards that you set for
yourselves!
Group Roles
 5 Groups, I’ll be counting off by fives
 First Round= Leader-Keep everyone on task and make sure every voice is
heard
 Second Round=Recorder-Writes down what the group comes up with on
poster
 Third Round=Presenter-Presents product to the class
 Fourth Round=Time Keeper-Keeps an eye on time and on task
 Fifth Round= Errand Monitor-Gets supplies and asks questions as needed
 Regardless of role, EVERYONE in the group is responsible for completing the
task! Don’t be: “I’m the presenter, so I’ll just loaf around until we present.”
 (Groups of four will combine Time Keeper and Errand Monitor)
Kahoot!
 Open your MacBooks and go to kahoot.it
 Enter this as your game pin: 135595
 Pick a school appropriate nickname
 Pick the shape of the best answer to the following questions
about plagiarism
 The winner will receive… Prize will be revealed on next slide 
What is Plagiarism?
 Definition: The practice of taking someone else's work
or ideas and passing them off as one's own.
 Essentially, if you take credit for someone else’s work,
it is considered cheating. In college you can be expelled
and “blacklisted” and in the professional world you
could get in legal trouble.
 We avoid plagiarism by giving credit to the source of
our information by citing our sources!
Is it Plagiarism if…
 I copy and paste something word for word?
 I copy and paste but I cite my source?
 I read something for information but put it in my own
words without citing it?
 I turn in a paper I didn’t write?
 YES! These are all examples of plagiarism.
When to Cite
 When you quote something, you must give credit by citing
your source.
 When you copy something word-for-word, you must give
credit by citing your source along with quotation marks.
 When you paraphrase someone's ideas, you must give them
credit by citing your source
 When you summarize someone's ideas, you must give them
credit by citing your source
When not to Cite
 Original ideas or research
 Common knowledge
 Things that are easily observed
 Common sayings/clichés
Citation Styles
 There are many ways to cite your sources
 You will be using the MLA Format
 At the end of your project, you will submit of copy of
your Bibliography to me
How to Use MLA
 I am listing the steps, citations are always written like a
sentence (see example below)
 For a book
 Author’s Last Name, Author’s First Name.
 Title of Book.
 City of publication:
 Name of publisher,
 Year.
 Medium. (What it is made of ?)
Pentzak, Joseph. Why Is Mr. Pentzak So Awesome?
Statesville: Northview Press, 2014. Print.
How to Use MLA
 Magazine Article

Author’s Last Name, Author’s First Name.

“Title of Article.”

Name of periodical.

Day Month (abrv).

Year.

Medium.
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Date Accessed (if web)
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<URL (website link)>
Carter, Shawn. "I Discovered My 100th Problem." Fake Lyfe 1 Apr. 2012. Web.
<http://www.fakelyfe123.com>
How to Use MLA
 Website
 Author and/or editor names (if available)
 “Article Title.”
 Title of the Website.
 Any version numbers available, including revisions, posting
dates, volumes, or issue numbers.
 Publisher Name.
 Medium.
 Date you accessed the material.
 <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/›
Citing Pictures
 Okay, so you really are supposed to cite photos.
 For this project, I will allow you to cite them by giving
the full URL under the image.
http://img.pandawhale.com/post-36437-doge-meme-weather-8h04.jpeg
“I can’t find…”
 Sometimes you will not find all the citation information
 Step one: double check somewhere else!
 Step two: “n.p.” for no publisher or “n.d.” for no date,
leave author blank if there is no identified author
 Step three: if you cannot find ANY information about
the source, do you think it is a good, reliable source?
 NOPE! Ditch it and find a better one!
Quick Reminders
 Punctuation ALWAYS goes inside quotation marks
(example: Mr. Pentzak yelled, “YOLO!” and he jumped out
of the moving van. OR Mrs. Newton confessed, “Mr.
Pentzak is the coolest teacher ever.”
 Do not indent the first line of a citation, if it goes onto a
second line, indent that one.
 This is what that looks like: Do not indent the first line of a
citation, if it goes onto a second line, indent that one.
 Citation builder websites may not always be correct. Always
write citations yourself!
If we have time
 Plagiarism game:
http://www.lycoming.edu/library/instruction/tutorial
s/plagiarismGame.aspx
Homework
 Get familiar with MLA citations and how we put
information together to make citations
 Go to this website and play until you win two rounds
 https://www.lib.jmu.edu/tictactoe/
 Take a screenshot of each “You Won!” screens
 You can use this document to help you as you play:
https://depts.washington.edu/trio/quest/citation/apa_
mla_citation_game/MLA_Review_09.pdf
Select your Three Topics
 By now, you should be familiar with the content of our
research databases
 You need to select three related topics to include in
your brochure
 You will use these topics to write your research
question
Formulate a Research
Question
 Using your three topics, craft a question that will be answered by your research.
Example for climate, agriculture, and food: “How did the climate of Egypt effect the
agricultural methods of ancient farmers and the types of food they produced and ate?”

Closely related topics may only need one question. You may choose to write multiple
questions.
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Your research question needs to guide your research

Your research needs to answer that question, final product is the answer to the question

You need to explain why you picked that question(s)
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Personal connections

Compare/contrast modern to ancient
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They answer: why should I/audience care? Why do we want to know?
You should NOT be able to answer this question today!
Bell Ringer #28
 Take out your completed research questions, three index
cards, your binder, a pencil and your macbooks
 Respond to the following questions in your bell ringer
section:
 1. What have I completed on my project so far?
 2. What do I hope to get accomplished in today’s class
period?
 3. What more needs to be done?
 4. Which portion of the project are you having the most
difficult with? (Finding sources, citing sources, formatting
brochure, book review, etc.)
Source Cards
 On an index card write the number of your source (one, two or
three) in the upper left corner
 Write your name, date and block in the upper right corner
 On the top line, write the type of source (database article,
book/ebook, or website)
 Write out the FULL MLA citation
 Write the facts you are using from that source in your own words
or the quotes you will be pulling from that source
 One will be counted as a classwork grade and the other two will be
counted as homework grades (CW due today, two for HW due next
class)
Example
#
Type of Source (Book)
Name
Date
Block
Full MLA citation ex:
Last, First. Title is in italics. City: Publisher, Year.
Medium. (Second line is indented)
The facts you are using from this source paraphrased (restated in your
own words) go here. You should pull about three facts from each
source. You’ll probably be able to find more if it is a good source.
Feel free to continue writing on the back of your source card! If you
cannot find at least three facts from a source it most likely isn’t the
best one to be using. Remember to refer back to your research
question to help guide your research.
Works Cited
 The Purdue OWL. Purdue U Writing Lab, 2010. Web. 17 Nov.
2014. https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/>
 Citing Your Sources. Oxford College Library. Web. 17 Nov. 2014.
http://oxford.library.emory.edu/research-learning/citationplagiarism/citing.html >
 This is PP and the formatting is slightly off