Thursday, September 13 finishing up works cited / vocab quiz

In class: vocabulary quiz Merchant of Venice 1.  Handout for Merchant of Venice 2. Quiz on Thursday, September 20.

Due at the close of class: please share Works Cited page: 2006630.

Here is another copy of the assignment:

Assignment and steps:You will create a works cited page with five correct MLA citations.  FOLLOW THESE STEPS

                                   1. Open up a word document

                                   2. Create a correct MLA heading (normally you would not do this on a works cited page, but I would like you to practice. Remember to double space, size 12, Times New Roman

                                                                                                      surname 1

Your name

Parker

English 3- ?

12 September 2018

                                                   

                                                       Works Cited

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3. Leave your document now and begin your research

4. In google search each of the following five topics:*

      a. history of Jews in Shakespeare's time

      b. anti-antisemitism in medieval Euro

      c. racial discrimination

      d. the origin of the ghetto

      e. Nazis and Jews

* For each of the five topics

      

   5. You will select one article and read two paragraphs.

   6. Next: open a new tab and type in Citation Machine, clicking on MLA and Website (I will walk everyone through these steps; don't panic!)

   7.  Copy the URL into the search website area

   8.  press search websites

   9. a new window will appear; press select

   10. A new window will appear; scroll down to final step

    11. A new window will appear; scroll down to create citation.

    12.  press the citation

    13.  your completed citation will appear.  It will look something like this: 

“English.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 27 Apr. 2018, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English.

  14. Copy this onto your word document.

   15. Once you have completed the five citations for your works cited, we will tidy up the organization.  Here is the the link for formatting a works cited page in Google docs:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0XVFFz_AFU

              

Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

Vocabulary List 2

1)     abridge (verb): to shorten by omission while retaining the basic content.

2)     appropriation (noun): the act of appropriating – to take for oneself (often without permission)

3)     forfeit:

a.     (verb): to lose or be deprived of

b.     (noun): a penalty for learning

4)     imposition(noun): an overly burdensome demand or command.

5)     imputation (noun): the act of imputing – to attribute or ascribe.

6)     melancholy (noun): a gloomy state of mind, depression.

7)     prodigal (adjective): Wastefully or recklessly extravagant, spending unnecessarily

8)     profound (adjective): very great/important, when a person or statement has great knowledge/insight.

9)     squander (verb): to waste something in a reckless/foolish manner

10)  supposition (noun): an uncertain belief, hypothesis, something supposed.