Remaining Checkpoints
May 2015
4
5
6
7
8
13
14
15
21
22
Background Info (Barclay)
11
12
Rough Draft (Hou)
18
19
20
FINAL
PAPER
Rough Draft Checkpoint: Sign-Ups
• Sign-up link is available on Ms. Hou’s DP
(English 11  Assignments and
Announcements)
• Periods 5/7 & 9/11: Rough Draft is due either
Monday, May 11 or Wednesday, May 13
• Periods 2/4 & 6/8: Rough Draft is due either
Tuesday, May 12 or Thursday, May 14
• Select ONE day for your rough draft
checkpoint to be due
Rough Draft Checkpoint: Sign-up
Expectations
1. Make sure you are signing up for the correct class period. If
you sign up for the wrong class period, I will cancel your signup and you will need to sign up again based on the spots that
remain.
2. Select ONE date for your rough draft checkpoint. Be
thoughtful about this. Once you sign up for a date, you are
committed to it. You cannot request to change it.
3. After you have signed up for a date, immediately note it
down on your personal calendar. You are responsible for
knowing when your rough draft checkpoint is.
4. On the day your checkpoint is due, bring a printed out copy
of your rough draft. The rough draft must be 6-7 pages (8-9
for the Honors option).
Body Paragraphs
• Ideal length: half to three-quarters of a page
(double spaced)
• No more than 40% of each paragraph should
be quoted material
• Use transitions and topic sentences effectively
• Focus on one main idea per paragraph; do not
try to cram in too many different ideas into a
single body paragraph
Block Quote Formatting
• Use block quotes when your quotes are more
than four lines when typed out in your paper
• Keep block quotes to a minimum! If you must
use it for your paper, use no more than 1
block quote (no more than 2 block quotes for
Honors Option)
Block Quote Formatting (cont’d)
Nick Carraway reflects on Gatsby’s character and describes his most
introduced with a colon
unique trait:
entire quote indented
no quotation marks
If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there
was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to
the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate
machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away. This
responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability
which is dignified under the name of the “creative temperament”— it
was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I
have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall
ever find again. (Fitzgerald 6)
citation AFTER the period
This first introduction to Gatsby immediately establishes him as a
paragraph continues on after
romantic and a dreamer.
the quote