Works Cited Test!   You can use notes and neighbors.


Here is the link to the article.


Article Info:

Title:       Microsoft’s racist chatbot returns with drug-smoking Twitter meltdown
Date:       March 30, 2016
Author:   Samuel Gibbs
Website:  The Guardian .com
Publisher: Guardian news and media ltd.




Groups and Readings-

Circle mistakes.
Check MLA format.
Check Works Cited format.




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Attendance.

Reminder- No class. Drafting day.

Return on Wed. with your Problem/Solution Essay including your works cited page for group editing.

Works Cited

1.   Here is the info for an article from the web.  Create a Works Cited entry for this article by talking to friends and looking up rules from OWL, MLA FORMAT, ELECTRONIC SOURCES.

Title:  Microsoft pulls plug after chat robot slings slurs, rips Obama and denies Holocaust.

Author:  Shawn Langolis

Website:  www.marketwatch.com

Date:  March 24, 2016

Publisher:  Marketwatch, Inc. 





2.  Now let's take a test and see if we can do it on our own.  Here is the article.



3.  Question and answer session.

4.  NO CLASS MONDAY-  HW-  You better have your P/S essay ready.

MLA

1.  Journal-  What's a works cited?  How is it related to your essay?  What are in text citations?  In sentence citations? 

2.  Quick MLA stuff.

3.  Groups and readers.

4.  Essays due again on Friday.

Happy Break/

1. HW--  Complete your P/S draft for Wednesday when we return.  See you Monday!

Moving on to the next essay.

What's a problem, something that annoys you to the point of  being crazy, something in your own life about you or about someone else that bothers you?

P/S essay topics from journals

P/S essay planning groups-  a class problem.

P/S essay planning groups, my problem.

HW-  Come to class with a plan for your P/S essay.

HW- Read this example-  from a sixth grader, partially as a model, partially to see what's missing.

Workshop

1.   Journal-  Using the 6 traits, grade your own essay.  What grade did you get?  What needs to be improved?

2.   Groups and work shopping-

Circle mistakes

Offer a compliment.

What would you change?

What’s wrong with the format?

What’s missing?

What don’t you understand?

Is the story descriptive enough?

Is it a good story, mostly?

3.    Final drafts due FRIDAY