Wednesday, March 27 ... Aldous Huxley Timeline Project

Part One ...

• Create a timeline for the timeline of Aldous Huxley
• Choose 10 significant events from his life
• Illustrate 5 of the events (as best you can ... symbols ... stick figures ... etc are acceptable)
• Use at least 5 different colors on your timeline

Part Two ... 

• Answer the following questions on the back of your timeline ... 

1. What is the significance of the title of his novel Brave New World?
2. When was the novel Brave New World written?
3. What type (genre) of novel is it?
4. Why is it banned in so many schools?

NEATNESS COUNTS!

You will have time to work on this TODAY AND FRIDAY.  It is due before you leave on Friday (3/29).

Friday, March 8 ... Final Drafts DUE!

• Research Paper Final Drafts are DUE! Once you have cleaned up your Rough Draft, rename the file with your Last Name, Class Period, and FINAL .. then share it with me or email it to me. 
• Example ... DAVIS 4th Final Draft 
• My email address is Richard.Davis@sfisd.org ... double check it and make sure you type it correctly. Remember, the internet expects you to spell everything correctly. 

• LEAVE YOUR SOURCE AND NOTE ENVELOPES IN THE ROOM ... preferably in the black crate on the cart up front. 

• If you were absent yesterday, you also need to make up the 9 week test. Make up tests are in an envelope on my desk. 
• Exams for those who needed more time to finish are in a separate envelope on my desk as well. 
• Exams must be finished today. 

• Enjoy your Spring Break. Stay safe. Make good decisions. We have one more grading period to go in your senior year - and it will go by faster than any point in your career as a student. 
• Keep in mind - if you do not get a paper turned in today, you might get a couple of days to get it in late .. but by Tuesday or Wednesday, I will be contacting parents to let them know you are in danger of failing English IV and not graduating. We’ve had that talk already and you knew what the stakes were. So I would strongly suggest getting your paper in today OR at least emailing me to let me know when I will receive the final copy so that I know you’re on it and being accountable.  

Monday, March 4 & Tuesday March 5 ... Rough Draft Submissions Begin, Works Cited, and Other Stuff

• As you finish your rough drafts, look at the example here to double check your MLA formatting: 
• MLA Research Paper Example

• Also, make sure it contains parenthetical documentation and has a works cited page at the end
• Works Cited Page Example

Once the rough draft is complete AND you have the formatting, citations, and Works Cited page correct, you will submit your rough draft to me on Canvas.  Save a copy of your rough draft to your desktop on the laptop and upload the file to Canvas.

IF YOU CANNOT GET IT UPLOADED TO CANVAS, SHARE IT WITH ME VIA WORD ONLINE

• Click the SHARE button
• Enter my email - Richard.Davis@sfisd.org

The rest of this is just repeating the information from last week so you'll have it easily accessible as well.

Below are some links that will help you at least get started with your rough draft and the MLA REQUIREMENTS of the research paper. No, I don’t know why requirements is in all caps, but I’m typing this on my phone so I’m not going to edit it. Anyway, read through them. They’ll help. There will be questions ... be patient. We’ll get them answered. 

• http://www.easybib.com/guides/citation-guides/mla-format/
• https://style.mla.org/formatting-papers/

Basically, for parenthetical documentation within the paper, anytime you quote or use info from a source, YOU MUST (all caps on purpose for emphasis) use parenthetical citations within the paper to attribute credit to the original source - which will be listed on your Works Cited Page. 

To cite a Gale database article, you’ll put the author’s last name in parenthesis before the period. For example ... 

The proper way to use parenthetical documentation would look like this (Davis). 

It could be that the article doesn’t have an author listed .. in that case the title of the work would be in parenthesis. UNLESS .. there is more than one source with the same title .. in which case you would put the name of the publication. 

If the author, article, or publication is named in the sentence, there is no further need for parenthetical documentation. For example ... 

According to Davis, if you list the author’s name then you don’t have to document it separately.