WHEN YOU COME IN…
Please have your
Shaping Sheet on
your desk, ready
for check-off.
AS I’M CHECKING OFF YOUR SHAPING
SHEET, PLEASE…
Use your quote sandwich packet to fill out the
information requested on the MLA Works Cited
Information worksheet at your desk.
You may work with your group.
YOU WILL BE TYPING YOUR WORKS CITED PAGE
AT THE END OF THE PERIOD, SO MAKE SURE
YOU DO EVERYTHING EXACTLY AS STATED!
TRANSITIONS ARE A MUST
Currently, your Shaping Sheet has 3
separate quote sandwich ideas.
YOU MUST MAKE THEM MAKE SENSE
TOGETHER AS A WHOLE, otherwise it
sounds incredibly disjointed.
TRANSITIONING… PARAGRAPH EXAMPLE
The Emmett Till story introduced to the world a different level of
prejudice, with an African American boy being murdered simply
because he whistled at a white woman. “The failure to punish anyone
for the crime made headlines across the country and around the
world…” (Leung 1). This was a prime example of prejudice because
he was targeted simply for the color of his skin. Emmett Till wasn’t
used to these rules, being from a northern state, so it was a deadly
lesson to the world about the injustice still occurring. The Scottsboro
Boys were nine boys accused of raping two white women, and “The
case served to galvanize the nascent civil rights movement” (Dunn 2).
With the nine boys being on an entirely different train car, it was
clear this was a targeted act of prejudice. Unfortunately, none of the
boys lived to see their story justified, and died with guilty sentences
hanging over their heads.
TRANSITION IDEAS WITHIN THE PARAGRAPH
1. Another good example of prejudice from To Kill a
Mockingbird was seen when…
2. Prejudice was also seen…
3. This prejudice was demonstrated again in later
years when…
Transitions should come as either PART of your lead-in
sentence, or a separate sentence before the lead-in all
together.
THIS IS PART OF YOUR FINAL ESSAY RUBRIC:
STEP ONE: IDENTIFY YOUR CONCRETE
DETAILS.
Re-read the sentence right before EACH concrete detail.
Does the concrete detail sentence talk about something new?
Does it seem to jump right into that idea without ANY transitional statement?
Insert those transitions now.
You will have 20 minutes to work on adding in transition statements.
WORKING WITH
MLA CITATIONS
Please refer to
your packets for
this information.
BASIC MLA CITATION
FOR A PAGE ON A WEBSITE
(EACH RESOURCE I’M GIVING YOU IS FROM THERE)
Info Needed:
Last name, First name. “Title of Article.” Title of the Website. Publisher, Day
Month Year published. Web. Day Month Year retrieved.
Example:
Lundman, Susan. “How to Make Vegetarian Chili.” eHow. Demand Media, n.d.
Web. 6 July 2015
**Remember to use n.p. if no publisher name is available and n.d. if no
publishing date is given.**