Pesky Punctuation
What is missing?
The book Night by Elie Wiesel is an excellent Holocaust memoir.
Night = Night
BOOK TITLES ARE ALWAYS ITALICIZED
The 19th Amendment awarded women the right to __.
The 19th Amendment awarded women the right to vote.
This semester, our historical timeline began roughly 100 years ago with the women's right to vote. What historical event did the semester end with?
COVID-19.
Correct this sentence:
Prof. Davis has three dogs and they are named Luna, Marcy, and Rory.
Prof. Davis has three dogs, and they are named Luna, Marcy, and Rory.
Think back to the ridiculous YouTube video we watched about paragraphs...what was the phrase repeated over and over again?
Clue: Each paragraph contains a ___ ___.
Each paragraph contains a main idea.
What is missing?
The article, About Prof. Davis' Dogs, details a day in the life of Luna, Marcy, and Rory.
The article, "About Prof. Davis' Dogs", details a day in the life of Luna, Marcy, and Rory.
ARTICLE TITLES ARE ALWAYS IN QUOTATION MARKS
Claudette Colvin was arrested in 1955 for ____.
Refusing to give up her seat on a bus
The poem "February 12, 1963" by Jacqueline Woodson is about ___.
future generations able to coexist despite race, appreciating our ancestors, acknowledging the work past generations did for equality.
Correct the sentence:
Luna loves to swim going to the creek is Luna's favorite activity
Luna loves to swim; going to the creek is Luna's favorite activity
What is the purpose of a topic sentence?
A topic sentence clearly states the main idea for the paragraph, & it must relate back to the thesis.
Create the in-text citation in MLA:
The book Night begins, "they called him Moshe the Beadle, as though he had never had a surname in his life"
The book Night begins, "they called him Moshe the Beadle, as though he had never had a surname in his life" (Wiesel 1).
PUNCTATION (THE PERIOD) ONLY AND ALWAYS GOES OUTSIDE OF THE QUOTATIONS
What historical case in 1973 focused on women's rights?
Roe v. Wade
According to Elie Wiesel, indifference is ____.
the most insidious danger of all
Correct the sentence:
Marcy is the worst beggar of the three, she barks when it's dinner time.
Marcy is the worst beggar of the three, and she barks when it's dinner time.
What is a detail sentence?
A detail belongs in your paragraphs after the topic sentence, & each detail sentence must reflect the topic sentence.
Create the in-text citation in MLA:
The book, Night, ends with the words, "the look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me"
The book, Night, ends with the words, "the look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me" (Wiesel 109).
PUNCTATION (THE PERIOD) ONLY AND ALWAYS GOES OUTSIDE OF THE QUOTATIONS
The BLM movement was created when someone #blacklivesmatter after the murder of Trayvon Martin. What year was the movement created in?
2013
The "Soup Song" we read related to which historical time period?
The Great Depression
Correct the sentence:
Rory, newest to the crew, was a foster fail, Prof. Davis knows nothing of her life before she was adopted.
Rory, newest to the crew, was a foster fail, and Prof. Davis knows nothing of her life before she was adopted.
Where does a thesis statement go?
A thesis statement goes at the end of the introduction paragraph, & it clearly states what the entire paper is going to be about.
Create the in-text citation:
Clue...if you introduce the quote with the author's name, then WHAT goes in the in-text citation?
Wiesel said, "and I tell him that I have tried. That I have tried to keep memory alive, that I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices"
Wiesel said, "and I tell him that I have tried. That I have tried to keep memory alive, that I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices" ("Elie Wiesel - Acceptance Speech").
IF YOU INTRODUCE A QUOTE WITH THE AUTHOR'S NAME, THEN THE ARTICLE/BOOK TITLE GOES IN () WITH PROPER PUNCTUATION AND FOLLOWED BY A PERIOD.
fundamental
Though Brown v. Board was a precedented court case for Civil Rights, it was not the only court case that related to education and equality. List one other court case that we read which was about education and equality.
See "School Desegregation Court Case" Reading because there are too many to type here.
Prof. Davis goes camping as often as she can and her dogs always come with her because they love to be outside.
Prof. Davis goes camping as often as she can, and her dogs always come with her because they love to be outside.
Within each paragraph, if you are using quotations, then it is necessary to ___ the quotation into your sentence.
Embed.
Ex: For Holocaust survivors, specifically, they must share their stories in order to “complete the process of survival after liberation” (Laub 85).