Friday, April 15th

Today students had time to work on their 6-Panel Memoir and to work on research for their research paper.

Mr. Zartler presented lessons on MLA Format (required for the research paper) and making Note Cards.

Note cards are the best way to organize your notes, because you only have to make one Bibliography card for each source, and then by physically moving your cards into different piles you will have a pretty easy time organizing your essay.

You might begin with Google Doc entries that looks like this (3 notes and the Citation):

Our society seems more interested in sending young, African-American males to prison than to college. (2)

To Kill a Mockingbird is a book that many use as an example of how to unlearn racism. (4)

The School-to-Prison pipeline is one sign of both white privilege and intrenched racism. (18)

Maher, Steffany Comfort. "Using To Kill a Mockingbird as a Conduit for Teaching about the 

     School-to-Prison Piplein." English Journal. 102.4 (2013): 45-52. Print

In order to turn these notes into note cards, you need to make three (3) separate note cards and a bibliography cards (4 cards total). Each card would end up looking like this one:

You will also have one card that is just the MLA citation

                  Maher, Steffany Comfort. "Using To Kill a Mockingbird as a Conduit for Teaching 

                       about the School-to-Prison Piplein." English Journal. 102.4 (2013): 45-52. Print