How to Cite Your Sources

Today we will look at how to give credit to any sources you used in your writing. If you use someone’s writing as your own, it is considered cheating. Specifically, a type of cheating called plagiarism. This is a very serious offense. In secondary school, you will not receive any marks on an assignment with any amount of plagiarized information. In university, plagiarism can result in not just being removed from the course, but being removed from the university completely. Yes, ALL COURSES.

We will look at how to document, or ‘cite’, your sources properly. We will use APA style. The chart below is from Purdue University’s online writing lab, and can be found at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/949/01/

Rugby World Cup 1995 Assignment

You are reporter writing an article to appear in the newspaper the morning after the World Cup final.

Your article should include the background leading up to the World Cup, including:

• The incarceration and election of Nelson Mandela
• The history of the sport of rugby in South Africa
• Apartheid in South Africa and its end

Essay Thursday

Now that you have researched a little bit of the history of apartheid in South Africa, we can look at a larger essay based on your opinions. You will need evidence to support your opinions. Whenever you use someone else’s ideas or words, you must cite your sources. If you fail to cite your source, it is plagiarism.

Create a template (outline) for an essay. You will write the essay in class on Thursday. You will write the essay by hand. You will be allowed to use quotes or information from other sources, but you must cite the source.

Invictus Discussion Questions

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Invictus, directed by Clint Eastwood

Thursday and Friday we are watching the movie “Invictus”, starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon

Invictus by William Ernest Henley

“Invictus”

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

“Invictus” is Latin for “unconquered”

Monday Dec. 2nd – Friday Dec. 6th

Monday and Tuesday we are in the library’s computer lab. Students will be completing their “You Be The Teacher” poetry presentations.

Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday students will be presenting/teaching their selected poems.

Thursday, Nov. 28th

Thursday we looked at FOUND POEMS. In groups of three, we looked at newspaper articles, picked up 25-35 powerful words, then arranged them and added punctuation to form a poem.