Building the Body of the Essay: May 20, 2016

If you want more copies of the Paragraph Organizer, it is linked HERE.  Make your own copy to put your info into it!

Hi everyone,
Today we tag-teamed in English and Social Studies to help you with this essay.  You had the opportunity to work on your essay intros with Mr. Zakian, and you had work time with me in class to develop your essays.

One of your assessments is on formatting and citations.  I am not going to go over MLA format with you in class, so I've attached a video about the basics of MLA if you have questions.  Please note, I want the body of the essay DOUBLE SPACED.  You can have a title if you want, but you don't have to - I do not care either way.

CITING SOURCES - if you do not use outside sources of your own choosing, you do not need to do a formal Works Cited page.  However, you DO need to cite your sources in the body of your essay.  Here is how you will do that:

[Name the source by its full title] Give the evidence [Follow with the document ID as (Doc ___)]

What it looks like:

According to the Cotton and Slavery - Production graph, there were 3,957,760 slaves in the United States in 1860 (Doc C).

As Frederick Douglass wrote in "Life of An American Slave," "Mr. Plummer was a miserable drunkard, a profane swearer, and a savage monster," (Doc I).

If you do your own research and quote the info you found, follow the same pattern - put the title of the source at the beginning, and put the general location where you found the source at the end of the sentence:

As the "Path to the Civil War" video states, the election of Abraham Lincoln was a major reason the South broke away from the Union (History.com).

If your source is a book and you name the title, put a page # in parentheses at the end:

As Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote in Uncle Tom's Cabin, "blah blah blah" (p 61).