Journal Topic for Tuesday, November 6th:

1. Journal Topic for Tuesday, November 6th: • What is MLA format? What is it used for? Do you remember how to use it properly? Why or why not?

2. Learning Target: Assignment: • Interpretive statements for Act One of “The Crucible” • How can I put a quote in the middle of a paragraph and make sure I give credit to the proper source? Criteria for Success: • Begin working on group interpretive • statements.

3. What is MLA anyway? • Modern Language Association • Founded in 1883 • Discussion & advocacy group for literature & modern languages • 30,000 members in 100 countries worldwide • Annual 4-day convention • Academic study of language • Language mapping • Job placement

4. Why would you want to? • Quotations, paraphrases, and summaries • Support claims or add credibility • Give examples of POV • Call attention to position • Highlight something powerful • distance yourself from the original • expand the breadth or depth of your writing

5. Summarizing • Summarizing = put main idea(s) into your own words, including only main point(s) • must be attributed • significantly shorter than original • take a broad overview

6. Paraphrasing • Paraphrasing = put it in your own words • Attribute paraphrases to their original sources • usually shorter than the original • Condense a broader source

7. Quoting • Quotations = exact words! • narrow segment • must match source document word for word • must be attributed to the original author • Use quotes when: • Author makes a solid point • Precisely & accurately stated • You can’t say it better yourself

8. Signal Phrases and In-Text Citation • introduce someone else’s work • In-text citations (also known as parenthetical citations) • Usually appear at end of quote • Give credit where credit is due • A simple rule: Author or Title and Page: what isn’t signaled up front must be cited at the end.

9. Signal Phrases and In-Text Citation (continued) • Limited signal, everything in citation . . . end of paraphrased sentence, in which you convey the author's ideas in your own words (Williams 103). " . . . end of quoted sentence" (Williams 103). • Author in signal, page in citation In 1985, Williams reported that . . . (103). Williams tells us that . . . (103). According to Williams, ". . ." (103).

10. Examples from “The Crucible” • Character: John Proctor • Evidence: He was the kind of man – powerful of body, even-tempered, and not easily led – who cannot refuse support to partisans without drawing their deepest resentment (1245). • Interpretation: Proctor becomes an easy target because people believe he’s very self-righteous. • Rationale: • This tells us a lot about what’s going to happen to Proctor later in the play: the fact that he never chose sides means everyone will be against him.

11. Writing an Interpretive Statement • Combine your evidence and interpretation into one paragraph • Must use correct MLA format for citing quotes! • Example: • The character of John Proctor in Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” is a very confident, strong willed man who doesn’t care what other people think of him. This leads people to believe he’s very self-righteous. We see proof of this when Miller describes John Proctor’s character. “He was the kind of man – powerful of body, even-tempered, and not easily led – who cannot refuse support to partisans without drawing their deepest resentment” (1245).

12. Looking for quality quotes! • Which of these quotes tells the most about Abigail Williams? • “I know you, John. I know you” (1246). • “And mark this. Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you” (1244). • “I never sold myself! I’m a good girl! I’m a proper girl” (1259)! • “… Abigail Williams, seventeen, enters – a strikingly beautiful girl, an orphan, with an endless capacity for dissembling” (1238).