- Journal
- Plagiarism & MLA Notes
- Article: "Sharing Philosophy with Children" - MLA citation & vocabulary
- Homework: For each vocabulary word, choose a vocab activity to complete. You may NOT choose an etymology/root word activity.
Journal "Staying Positive": Create a “Top 10” list of ways students can stay positive when things get tough.
Plagiarism and MLA notes. Students made notes on the following information:
What is MLA?
See syllabus for explanation from the MLA (Modern Language Association)
A documentation style used when writing in humanities, including English language and literature.
You don’t get to document any way you want.
You must follow this style in English class.
There is no other option.
What does it mean to "document"?
To give proof of where a writer/researcher got his/her information. This prevents plagiarism. Some forms of plagiarism can be considered STEALING.
Imagine that you wrote a story or article that was published in a magazine. It took you 6 weeks to write. You worked on it two hours a day. You lost sleep over it.
How would you feel if someone took that story, copied it, and turned it in as their own?
Not a big deal?
What if that the story was made into a successful movie and all that money went to the person who “stole” YOUR STORY?
Videos about plagiarism. Students watched the videos at the following link http://library.camden.rutgers.edu/EducationalModule/Plagiarism/odule/Plagiarism/
After watching each video, they wrote a few notes about what they remembered, what they learned. This video is from Rutgers University. Don’t let it intimidate you – plagiarism is the same whether you’re in middle school, high school, college, or beyond.
HOMEWORK due Thursday: For each vocabulary word, complete 1 vocabulary activity from the green vocabulary packet. You may NOT choose the etymology & root word activities. If you did not finish copying the definitions, etymology, and root words, you should go to dictionary.com and get this information.
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