Avoiding Plagiarism
Handy-dandy method to help you paraphrase and summarize text.
What is the W5 S method?
In the years 1609-1610, this reduced 500 colonists to 60 by starvation
What is "The Starving Time?"
Group who participated in public demonstrations, for example creating "home-spun" in the public square
Who are the Daughters of Liberty?
Wrote the first drafts of both the Constitution and the Bill of Rights
Who is James Madison?
percentage of the Native American population that is estimated to have been wiped out by diseases brought by Europeans?
What is 90%?
Using this to do your thinking and writing for you is like bringing a forklift to the weight room.
What is AI?
the year the first kidnapped Africans were brought to the colonies to be enslaved
What is 1619?
16-year-old female version of Paul Revere
Who is Sybil Ludington?
Amendment that allows for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of assembly
What is the 1st Amendment?
Item the Spanish settlers were often seeking
What is gold?
Citation showing the date the article was accessed and the website address, among other information
What is a correctly cited online article?
People who signed contracts agreeing to work a certain number of years (often 4-7) in exchange for passage to the colonies
Who are Indentured Servants?
enslaved woman known all over the colonies and in Europe for her poetry
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
a term used to describe the certain steps that must be taken by the government before they can take away, or inhibit, someone's life, liberties, or property.
What is due process?
current estimate of the percentage of the overall slave trade that enslaved Native Americans
What is 40%?
Three: you're in big trouble as relates to plagiarism at BSO
What is the number of times a student plagiarizes earning them a meeting with the principal, parents, school counselor, and teachers?
Widely read, inspired people to fight for liberty and freedom from English rule, and helped redirect conflict between colonists to unite against England.
What is Thomas Paine's "Common Sense?"
Approximately 20,000 wives of soldiers who followed their husbands into the fields of war
Who are Camp Followers?
amendment that states "Citizens of the United States have rights in addition to what’s stated in the Constitution."
What is the 9th amendment?
Native American who led a rebellion against Spanish settlers for 22 years
Who is Popé?
A citation within the body of your writing
What is an in-text citation?
Most of the people of these two groups decided to side with the British against the colonists during the Revolutionary War
Who are Native Americans and enslaved Africans?
At 16 years old, escaped from George Washington's plantation during the chaos of the war to gain the freedom promised by the British
Who is Deborah Squash?
amendment that states "The federal government has only those authorities and powers as granted to it by the Constitution, and those powers and authorities not granted to the federal government, are given to the states and/or the people who live in them."
What is Amendment 10?
considered to be one of the worst wars in U. S. history in terms of per capita bloodshed
What is King Philip's War?