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    January 11, 2012

    Mrs. Leary

    January 11, 2012

    Do Now: Read silently in your SSR book.


    AGENDA Reader Response Creating Source Cards and Notecards Paraphrasing and Summarizing

    January 11, 2012

    Notecards (pg. 23)


    Notecards are used for research papers and project to help ORGANIZE information.

    1. Read with a purpose in mind. 2. Restate, condense, and bullet the information in your own words. 3. Number the source and be sure it matches your source card. Open to pg. 5 in your Wax Museum packet.

    January 11, 2012

    Source Cards (pg. 24) Source cards include the details that will appear on your Works Cited list (one index card per source). They provide quick and easy reference when you need to include internal citations. Complete pg. 25 in your Wax Museum packet.

    January 11, 2012

    How can we condense information? Let's have Tim and Moby teach us about paraphrasing! (pg. 31)
    http://www.brainpop.com/english/writing/paraphrasing

    Work on pg. 35 in your packet.

    January 11, 2012

    Summarizing (pg. 36) A summary is a brief retelling of the main ideas of a passage in your own words. It is always shorter and more succinct than the original passage. Let's look at pg. 39 in your packet together.

    January 11, 2012

    Upcoming Due Dates: Thursday, 1/12: First set of 20 notecards due.

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