March 8 ... 3rd 9 Weeks CBA .. Research Paper Final Drafts ... Pandemonium Ensues

• We have to take our 3rd 9 Week Exams TODAY.

• FINAL DRAFTS will now be submitted electronically to me either today or tomorrow (since you'll lose the period today due to the 3rd 9 Week Exam.
• Even if you shared it with me once already - SHARE it again.  The date and time on the email I receive to show that it has been shared will serve as your official time and date of submission. Anything not turned in by 2:35 tomorrow, Friday 3/8 will be late.

• No phones, computers, or electronic devices of ANY kind during the exam.

March 6 ... Self Check ... Editing/Revising

• Grab a copy of the research paper checklist from the top of the laptop cart
• It is modified from a peer evaluation/editing assignment - so there are some things that are slightly changed or crossed out.  When in doubt, refer to the requirements for our paper.
• It is an optional quiz grade - but you MUST turn in a completed rough draft to receive that grade.  No rough draft, nothing to self-check/edit ... thus, no grade.

• Once you finish the checklist (you have today and tomorrow to work), finish your editing and revising on your rough draft so you are ready to print when we are in the lab on Thursday (3/8) when your paper is due.

• Once you have finished cleaning up your paper, copy and paste your works cited page to the end of the paper (make sure it starts on its own page).  Works Cited do NOT count toward your word count, just FYI.

***Also ... one last time ... the Advisory Passports cannot be used to substitute for the rough draft***

March 5 .. One More Week (and Research Papers are due Thursday!)

The rubric for grading your Final Draft is below - remember it is due on Thursday.

Also ... your notes and sources need to remain in the room starting today to receive a grade.  If you need them to work on your paper outside of class, you need to make sure I am aware of that.

• Rough Drafts are late ... they were due on Friday 3/2
• We will have a revising/editing/MLA checklist activity for you to complete in class tomorrow
• Final Drafts are due on Thursday, 3/8 ... we will be in the lab that day to print them.

Feb 28 - Mar 2 ... Calendar Update and Rough Draft Workdays

• ROUGH DRAFTS must be submitted to me/shared with me electronically by midnight on Friday, March 2.  I will still accept them after that and you should still turn it in, but they will be subject to a late penalty in accordance with the grading policy.

• FINAL DRAFTS .. we will be in the computer lab (A102) on 3/8 to print our FINAL DRAFTS!  You must turn in a printed copy in addition to the electronic copy you've already shared with me (the rough draft, prior to editing).

February 26 ... Updated Research Calendar - R/D due 2/28 ... F/D due 3/8

Research Paper Calendar ... the rest of the way ...

• 2/26 - 2/27 ... Work on Rough Drafts (I will be out for a teacher workshop on 2/21)

• 2/28 ... Rough Draft DUE / Submit an electronic copy of your Rough Draft (QUIZ)

• 3/1 ... Peer Editing Activities (DAILY)

• 3/2 - 3/8 ... Work on your Final Draft (Class in lab A202 on 3/6 and 3/7 to begin printing Final Drafts)

• 3/8 ... FINAL DRAFTS DUE (Classes will meet in Library Lab A202 to print on 3/7) / Students MUST turn in a printed copy AND submit or share an online copy as well (2x MAJOR GRADE FOR FINAL DRAFT)

Info on Parenthetical Citations to review ...

http://www.easybib.com/guides/citation-guides/mla-format/how-to-cite-a-parenthetical-citations-mla/

https://www.ccis.edu/~/media/Files/Academic%20Resources/Writing%20Center/mla_examples.pdf


You can find MLA sample argument papers here to ensure you are on the right track with yours - or see me and we can go over what you have: MLA Sample Argument Papers

You may also want to look at the standard outline for an argument paper as you consider how to structure your paper: Argument Paper - Sample Outline


WORKS CITED INFO ... ONCE YOU HAVE COMPLETED YOUR WORKS CITED PAGE IN WORD ONLINE, BE SURE TO SHARE IT WITH ME - richard.davis@sfisd.org

• Works Cited Page
• 8 QUICK RULES FOR YOUR WC PAGE
• Start a new page for your Works Cited list (e.g., if your paper is 4 pages long, start your Works Cited list on page 5).
• Center the title, Works Cited, at the top of the page and do not bold or underline it. Use 12 point Times New Roman in both the title and the entries.
• Double-space the list.
• Start the first line of each citation at the left margin; indent each subsequent line five spaces (also known as a "hanging indent").
• Put your list in alphabetical order. Alphabetize the list by the first word in the citation. In most cases, the first word will be the author’s last name. Where the author is unknown, alphabetize by the first word in the title, ignoring the words a, an, the.
• For each author, give the last name followed by a comma and the first name followed by a period.
• Italicize the titles of full works: books, audiovisual material,websites.
• Do not italicize titles of parts of works, such as: articles from newspapers, magazines, or journals / essays, poems, short stories or chapter titles from a book / chapters or sections of an Internet document. Instead, use quotation marks.

• Sample of what a Works Cited page should look like - https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/12/
• The information you need for each citation is at the end of each source from the Gale database.  You can copy and paste the MLA Citation from there - but you may have to adjust the formatting (size, font, etc.) to make sure it is within MLA rules.

ARGUMENT THESIS STATEMENT INFO ... 

• As you work, it is time to begin considering what your thesis statement will be.  Read over the following website if you need some assistance developing your thesis statement.
• Writing the Argumentative Thesis

February 20-23 ... Works Cited, Outline Example, and Writing the Rough Draft

Today you need to finish your Works Cited page and, hopefully, begin writing your rough draft.  Before you begin drafting, take a look at at least one of the MLA Sample Argument Papers at the link here: MLA Sample Argument Papers

You may also want to look at the standard outline for an argument paper as you consider how to structure your paper: Argument Paper - Sample Outline


WORKS CITED INFO ... ONCE YOU HAVE COMPLETED YOUR WORKS CITED PAGE IN WORD ONLINE, BE SURE TO SHARE IT WITH ME - richard.davis@sfisd.org

• Works Cited Page
• 8 QUICK RULES FOR YOUR WC PAGE
• Start a new page for your Works Cited list (e.g., if your paper is 4 pages long, start your Works Cited list on page 5).
• Center the title, Works Cited, at the top of the page and do not bold or underline it. Use 12 point Times New Roman in both the title and the entries.
• Double-space the list.
• Start the first line of each citation at the left margin; indent each subsequent line five spaces (also known as a "hanging indent").
• Put your list in alphabetical order. Alphabetize the list by the first word in the citation. In most cases, the first word will be the author’s last name. Where the author is unknown, alphabetize by the first word in the title, ignoring the words a, an, the.
• For each author, give the last name followed by a comma and the first name followed by a period.
• Italicize the titles of full works: books, audiovisual material,websites.
• Do not italicize titles of parts of works, such as: articles from newspapers, magazines, or journals / essays, poems, short stories or chapter titles from a book / chapters or sections of an Internet document. Instead, use quotation marks.

• Sample of what a Works Cited page should look like - https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/12/
• The information you need for each citation is at the end of each source from the Gale database.  You can copy and paste the MLA Citation from there - but you may have to adjust the formatting (size, font, etc.) to make sure it is within MLA rules.

ARGUMENT THESIS STATEMENT INFO ... 

• As you work, it is time to begin considering what your thesis statement will be.  Read over the following website if you need some assistance developing your thesis statement.
• Writing the Argumentative Thesis

REMINDERS ABOUT DUE DATES ...

Keep our updated dates in mind as you work ... it seems like a LOT of time ... but if wasted, it won't be.  Also, keep in mind that I am here to help you in this process ... but I am not a mind reader.  I can't tell the difference between someone who is working on something else because they are finished from someone who is working on something else because they aren't planning to do this assignment from someone who is working on something else because they "don't know what to do."  You're all adults (or close) ... so I expect that you will communicate questions or issues clearly.

• 2/12 - 2/16 ... Analyze Sources and Highlight Notes

• 2/19 ... STUDENT HOLIDAY

• 2/20 ... Sources and Highlighted Notes DUE (MAJOR) - all work must be in your envelope and turned in to the crates in the classroom.
• Works Cited Page - In Class (QUIZ) ***Papers MUST have a Works Cited page or they will be penalized as plagiarism*** and review parenthetical documentation

• 2/21 ... Review options for paper organization - begin working on Rough Draft.

• 2/21 - 2/27 ... Work on Rough Drafts (I will be out for a teacher workshop on 2/21)

• 2/27 ... Rough Draft DUE / Submit an electronic copy of your Rough Draft (QUIZ)

• 2/28 ... Peer Editing Activities (DAILY)

• 3/1 ... Self-Editing and Revisions Activity (DAILY)

• 3/2 - 3/6 ... Work on your Final Draft (Class in lab A202 on 3/6 to begin printing Final Drafts)

• 3/7 ... FINAL DRAFTS DUE (Classes will meet in Library Lab A202 to print) / Students MUST turn in a printed copy AND submit or share an online copy as well (2x MAJOR GRADE FOR FINAL DRAFT)

***Any date that does not have a grade specifically attached to it may have a participation grade assessed.  Students are expected to use class time on the assignments as noted to stay on schedule - students who are wasting time, talking, sleeping, daydreaming, playing on their phones, etc. will lose points on participation grades.***

***Students who have not completed a major phase of the paper will not be allowed to continue to the next step until the previous major step is completed.  You cannot write a rough draft without research.  You cannot produce a final draft without first writing a rough draft.***

***Late assignments will be penalized per the grading policy regardless of the type of grade attached.  Assignments will be accepted up to three days late with a 30 point penalty.  Assignments will be accepted beyond that at the teacher's discretion and will be penalized 50 points.***

February 15 ... Working with sources (and some Works Cited page information)

You have today and tomorrow in class to finish working with your source material - remember sources are due, with highlighted notes, on Tuesday 2/20.  Keep in mind your sources and notes are a major grade - whatever is in your envelope will be graded.

Yesterday we included some info on argument thesis statements for those of you ready to start moving forward (that information is copied on down the page here as well).

WORKS CITED INFO ...

• Works Cited Page
• 8 QUICK RULES FOR YOUR WC PAGE
• Start a new page for your Works Cited list (e.g., if your paper is 4 pages long, start your Works Cited list on page 5).
• Center the title, Works Cited, at the top of the page and do not bold or underline it. Use 12 point Times New Roman in both the title and the entries.
• Double-space the list.
• Start the first line of each citation at the left margin; indent each subsequent line five spaces (also known as a "hanging indent").
• Put your list in alphabetical order. Alphabetize the list by the first word in the citation. In most cases, the first word will be the author’s last name. Where the author is unknown, alphabetize by the first word in the title, ignoring the words a, an, the.
• For each author, give the last name followed by a comma and the first name followed by a period.
• Italicize the titles of full works: books, audiovisual material,websites.
• Do not italicize titles of parts of works, such as: articles from newspapers, magazines, or journals / essays, poems, short stories or chapter titles from a book / chapters or sections of an Internet document. Instead, use quotation marks.

• Sample of what a Works Cited page should look like - https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/12/
• The information you need for each citation is at the end of each source from the Gale database.  You can copy and paste the MLA Citation from there - but you may have to adjust the formatting (size, font, etc.) to make sure it is within MLA rules.

ARGUMENT THESIS STATEMENT INFO ... 

• As you work, it is time to begin considering what your thesis statement will be.  Read over the following website if you need some assistance developing your thesis statement.
• Writing the Argumentative Thesis

REMINDERS ABOUT DUE DATES ...

Keep our updated dates in mind as you work ... it seems like a LOT of time ... but if wasted, it won't be.  Also, keep in mind that I am here to help you in this process ... but I am not a mind reader.  I can't tell the difference between someone who is working on something else because they are finished from someone who is working on something else because they aren't planning to do this assignment from someone who is working on something else because they "don't know what to do."  You're all adults (or close) ... so I expect that you will communicate questions or issues clearly.

• 2/12 - 2/16 ... Analyze Sources and Highlight Notes

• 2/19 ... STUDENT HOLIDAY

• 2/20 ... Sources and Highlighted Notes DUE (MAJOR) - all work must be in your envelope and turned in to the crates in the classroom.
• Works Cited Page - In Class (QUIZ) ***Papers MUST have a Works Cited page or they will be penalized as plagiarism*** and review parenthetical documentation

• 2/21 ... Review options for paper organization - begin working on Rough Draft.

• 2/21 - 2/27 ... Work on Rough Drafts (I will be out for a teacher workshop on 2/21)

• 2/27 ... Rough Draft DUE / Submit an electronic copy of your Rough Draft (QUIZ)

• 2/28 ... Peer Editing Activities (DAILY)

• 3/1 ... Self-Editing and Revisions Activity (DAILY)

• 3/2 - 3/6 ... Work on your Final Draft (Class in lab A202 on 3/6 to begin printing Final Drafts)

• 3/7 ... FINAL DRAFTS DUE (Classes will meet in Library Lab A202 to print) / Students MUST turn in a printed copy AND submit or share an online copy as well (2x MAJOR GRADE FOR FINAL DRAFT)

***Any date that does not have a grade specifically attached to it may have a participation grade assessed.  Students are expected to use class time on the assignments as noted to stay on schedule - students who are wasting time, talking, sleeping, daydreaming, playing on their phones, etc. will lose points on participation grades.***

***Students who have not completed a major phase of the paper will not be allowed to continue to the next step until the previous major step is completed.  You cannot write a rough draft without research.  You cannot produce a final draft without first writing a rough draft.***

***Late assignments will be penalized per the grading policy regardless of the type of grade attached.  Assignments will be accepted up to three days late with a 30 point penalty.  Assignments will be accepted beyond that at the teacher's discretion and will be penalized 50 points.***

February 14 ... Continuing our Research Analysis

• Continue reading, analyzing, and highlighting your notes within your sources.  Remember that all sources should be highlighted/noted .. but you do not have to continue counting notes past 65 for the A level paper.

• As you work, it is time to begin considering what your thesis statement will be.  Read over the following website if you need some assistance developing your thesis statement.
• Writing the Argumentative Thesis

Keep our updated dates in mind as you work ... it seems like a LOT of time ... but if wasted, it won't be.  Also, keep in mind that I am here to help you in this process ... but I am not a mind reader.  I can't tell the difference between someone who is working on something else because they are finished from someone who is working on something else because they aren't planning to do this assignment from someone who is working on something else because they "don't know what to do."  You're all adults (or close) ... so I expect that you will communicate questions or issues clearly.

• 2/12 - 2/16 ... Analyze Sources and Highlight Notes

• 2/19 ... STUDENT HOLIDAY

• 2/20 ... Sources and Highlighted Notes DUE (MAJOR) - all work must be in your envelope and turned in to the crates in the classroom.
• Works Cited Page - In Class (QUIZ) ***Papers MUST have a Works Cited page or they will be penalized as plagiarism*** and review parenthetical documentation

• 2/21 ... Review options for paper organization - begin working on Rough Draft.

• 2/21 - 2/27 ... Work on Rough Drafts (I will be out for a teacher workshop on 2/21)

• 2/27 ... Rough Draft DUE / Submit an electronic copy of your Rough Draft (QUIZ)

• 2/28 ... Peer Editing Activities (DAILY)

• 3/1 ... Self-Editing and Revisions Activity (DAILY)

• 3/2 - 3/6 ... Work on your Final Draft (Class in lab A202 on 3/6 to begin printing Final Drafts)

• 3/7 ... FINAL DRAFTS DUE (Classes will meet in Library Lab A202 to print) / Students MUST turn in a printed copy AND submit or share an online copy as well (2x MAJOR GRADE FOR FINAL DRAFT)

***Any date that does not have a grade specifically attached to it may have a participation grade assessed.  Students are expected to use class time on the assignments as noted to stay on schedule - students who are wasting time, talking, sleeping, daydreaming, playing on their phones, etc. will lose points on participation grades.***

***Students who have not completed a major phase of the paper will not be allowed to continue to the next step until the previous major step is completed.  You cannot write a rough draft without research.  You cannot produce a final draft without first writing a rough draft.***

***Late assignments will be penalized per the grading policy regardless of the type of grade attached.  Assignments will be accepted up to three days late with a 30 point penalty.  Assignments will be accepted beyond that at the teacher's discretion and will be penalized 50 points.***

Spring Semester - Expectation Reminders

Per the faculty meeting last Thursday ... we need to increase our compliance (as teachers and students) with the following ...

• No Fly List
• Cellphones MUST be turned in before leaving the classroom for any reason
• Do not allow students to leave early for lunch
• Students need to be seated until the bell rings - not at the door or spilling into the hallways
• Hall Passes - students are not allowed out of class for any reason without a pass

UPDATE TO IMPORTANT RESEARCH PAPER DATES!!!

Updated Dates for Research Paper.

• 2/12 - 2/16 ... Analyze Sources and Highlight Notes

• 2/19 ... STUDENT HOLIDAY

• 2/20 ... Sources and Highlighted Notes DUE (MAJOR) - all work must be in your envelope and turned in to the crates in the classroom.
• Works Cited Page - In Class (QUIZ) ***Papers MUST have a Works Cited page or they will be penalized as plagiarism*** and review parenthetical documentation

• 2/21 ... Review options for paper organization - begin working on Rough Draft.

• 2/21 - 2/27 ... Work on Rough Drafts (I will be out for a teacher workshop on 2/21)

• 2/27 ... Rough Draft DUE / Submit an electronic copy of your Rough Draft (QUIZ)

• 2/28 ... Peer Editing Activities (DAILY)

• 3/1 ... Self-Editing and Revisions Activity (DAILY)

• 3/2 - 3/6 ... Work on your Final Draft (Class in lab A202 on 3/6 to begin printing Final Drafts)

• 3/7 ... FINAL DRAFTS DUE (Classes will meet in Library Lab A202 to print) / Students MUST turn in a printed copy AND submit or share an online copy as well (2x MAJOR GRADE FOR FINAL DRAFT)

***Any date that does not have a grade specifically attached to it may have a participation grade assessed.  Students are expected to use class time on the assignments as noted to stay on schedule - students who are wasting time, talking, sleeping, daydreaming, playing on their phones, etc. will lose points on participation grades.***

***Students who have not completed a major phase of the paper will not be allowed to continue to the next step until the previous major step is completed.  You cannot write a rough draft without research.  You cannot produce a final draft without first writing a rough draft.***

***Late assignments will be penalized per the grading policy regardless of the type of grade attached.  Assignments will be accepted up to three days late with a 30 point penalty.  Assignments will be accepted beyond that at the teacher's discretion and will be penalized 50 points.***