Mr. Hawley - Burlington School Daily English Lessons

Wednesday - March 6, 2013

General notices:  Current Events due for all 7th, 8th graders tomorrow.  Spelling quiz week seven for 7th, 8th, and 10th grade tomorrow.  History test tomorrow. 

7th Grade:  Notes on research papers.  Things to keep in mind.
1.  Research papers need a Title Page that includes
a.  title
b.  your name
c.  class
d.  date

2.  Essay 2-4 pages for 7th grade Science paper.
a.  includes citations in paper.  We will discuss these in great detail later.

3.  Works Cited.  This is the most complicated part, and there are lots of little nit-picky rules.  Don't worry.  I will cover all of this in class very thoroughly!!!
a.  You need to use a hanging indent - I will discuss these in class, and show examples
b.  You need to single space the entries themselves, but double space between entries. 
c.  You need to include 5 things in each citation:
  1.  Author
  2.  Title
  3.  Date published
  4.  City of publication
  5.  Publishing company
d.  Entries should be alphabetized, usually by author's last name.
e.  We are using the MLA format style.  This is different from APA, which calls the Works Cited a "Bibliography."
f.  THERE ARE SO MANY LITTLE RULES AND THINGS TO DO AND NOT DO THAT YOU CAN'T POSSIBLY MEMORIZE THEM ALL, WHICH IS WHY YOU NEED TO BECOME GOOD FRIENDS WITH THE WRITER'S INC (HAWLEY'S BIBLE) BOOK, WHICH IS A GREAT RESOURCE FOR LOOKING UP THESE LITTLE THINGS. 

8th Grade:  Debate topics discussion.  We also watched a video with Piers Morgan where he shows us very effectively how NOT to conduct a proper debate.

10th Grade:  Page 400 - 406 in the Grammar text books.  2nd period only, do activity 2 on page 404.  Due Thursday.

History:  Preamble practice song and trials by students to get it right.  Nobody has earned that elusive piece of candy yet!  We did question cards - Red this time.  We reviewed for the Executive branch test which is TOMORROW!!!  Hopefully, you have been studying, and are ready to go.  We also finished debating the different debate topics.  Wow.  I've never had a class debate before about what topics we should debate.