Friday, December 18, 2009

Works Cited Page Example

Click on this link to see what a proper MLA works cited page looks like

Research Link

Hello, AP Students and happy last day before break. Today's class will be spent reading research, making notecards, and perhaps printing articles in the library. If you've already done all that you can begin to compose your summary paragraphs.

Here's a better link to the CPS library databases

Once you've gone to the above link click on Student Resource Gold, put in our school name or school code and you're in business.

Happy researching!!!

Remember the blog is always here, even when school is out. This paper is due Tuesday January, 5th!! email me at emeckart@cps.edu if anything is unclear.

Monday, December 14, 2009

Research summary

Hi, today we will be using the blog as our text!
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Week 16 day 1

AP Language


Bellringer(1-2 sentence journal)

How do you decide what is real on the internet and what isn't?


Objectives: I will be able to use library databases to find academic articles; I will be able to find the main idea and extract useful quotes from complicated academic articles; I will be able to make an MLA works cited page.


Agenda

  • Bellringer

  • Objective and agenda review

  • What is an academic article?

  • How to read an academic article and keep notecards?

  • How do I cite an article in a works cited page?

  • How do I use the school library databases?

  • Assign Research Survey (due upon return from Christmas break)

  • Student research time

  • Exit ticket: One complete notecard.

What is an academic article: An article found in an academic journal. This can be done through an electronic database

Like this one:
Hip Hop is now: an evolving youth culture. Carl Taylor, and Virgil Taylor.
Reclaiming Children and Youth 15.4 (Wntr 2007): p210(4).

COPYRIGHT 2007 Reclaiming Children and Youth

Emerging from Rap music, Hip Hop has become a lifestyle to many modern youth around the world. Embodying both creativity and controversy, Hip Hop mirrors the values, violence, and hypocrisy of modern culture. The authors dispel some of the simplistic views that surround this evolving youth movement embraced by millions of young people who are struggling to find meaning in communities that too often lack hope and pathways to purpose.
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Recently during a focus group interaction, a young college woman was asked what Hip Hop was. This young neatly dressed, articulate student thought for a moment before responding in a way that was very matter of fact. "Hip Hop is now; it's in your face, and it's real and honest." When asked what separated herself and her peers from adult culture she pondered for a moment and then responded, "We're not all that different from older adults except that ya'll were punks and we're not." Punks! The adults in the discussion did not like being referred to as punks but managed to contain their composure in order to try to understand the meaning behind this young woman's words.
Hip Hop, the latest form of youthful expression by thousands of young people around the world, has evolved over the last twenty years. Once exclusively related to rap music, this form of expression has now become a lifestyle. The influence of Hip Hop can be seen in fashion, electronic design, auto design, movies, music, literary works, and hundreds of other mediums in every facet of modern society.
The idea that older adults are "punks" revolves around the belief that adult culture is hypocritical, that older adults did the same things that young people do now but were afraid to admit their indiscretions. Compounding the problem is the fact that indiscretions committed by adults, not only in the past but also including current sins, are routinely focused on in the news and in historic accounts of individuals' pasts. Hip Hop is a vast and varied collection of ideas and values that are continuously fueled by new truths as well as misinformation and lies, rhetoric, and ever changing ideology and concepts that are relayed in the varying forms of Hip Hop music.


Use the sample article to practice writing a citation
How to make a MLA Works Cited page: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/05/



This is the schools library databases--which can be accessed from any computer with internet:

http://www.accessmyschool.com/cps/home.php?id=cps1860




Research Summary
Your objective for this assignment is to find, read, evaluate, discuss and cite three sources on one issue. For each source you must write a detailed paragraph-long summary, integrating (weaving) quotes with paraphrase. Finally, you must compose a two paragraph interpretation of the issue based on your reading of the three sources. All your sources must be cited in a properly formatted Works Cited page.

Here are your topic choices:

Education and racial inequality: Is there a educational genocide taking place?
Sweatshop Labor: Are your shoes worth it?
Factory Farming: If we knew what our food went through would we eat it?
Hip-hop and gender
Hip-hop and violence
The moral implications of Stem Cell research
Conflict in post-colonial Africa

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

AP Updates

Hello students,

Visiting the blog just like I asked, that's why I like you guys. Here are some likes I've been talking about:

First of all here's a link to AP central--where you can find the penny question, along with student work. The Penny question is essay question one from the 2008 exam. Make sure to read the student work and scoring guide!

Also here's Grammar Girl's website for all you comma and clause needs.

Don't say I never gave you anything!