Today’s Schedule

1. Today’s Schedule • Lesson Goals: To learn and finish writing a properly formatted body paragraph for an MLA style literary essay; integrating quotations • Minds On • Guided Model: Body Paragraph #1 • Integrating Quotations: Lesson • Action • Work Period for Body Paragraph #1 • Consolidate • Looking ahead (schedule for this week and next)

2. Integrating Quotations Never just drop a quotation into your paper. Always introduce it and explain it with your own prose. There are three main ways to introduce quotations. These include:

3. 1. Incorporate the quotation into your sentence, punctuating it just as you would if it was not a quotation. As Bob is being beaten, he hopes he“will become unconscious but [he] can’t.” Bob appraises Mrs. Harrison derisively, stating that“she looked so complacent, sitting there in her two-hundred dollar chair [. . . ] bought with dough her husband had made overcharging poor hard-working colored people for his incompetent services, that I had a crazy impulse to needle her.”

4. 2. Introduce the quotation by using an attributive tag like he writes, she claims, and so on. To describe his childlike consciousness, Wright explains,“Each event spoke with a cryptic tongue. And the moments of living slowly revealed their coded meanings.” After going to Memphis and boarding with Mrs. Moss, Wright wonders,“Was it wise to remain here with a seventeen-year-old girl eager for marriage and a mother equally anxious to have her marry me?”

5. 3. Introduce the quotation by writing a full sentence and a colon to introduce the quotation, which should itself be a full sentence. Bob’s description of Madge emphasizes her fake appearance:“She was a peroxide blonde with a large-featured, overly made-up face, and she had a large, bright-painted, fleshy mouth.” Richard Wright explains his reasons for writing:“I was striving for a level of expression that matched those of the novels I read.”

6. Block a quotation if it is four lines or longer. Indent the quotation one half of an inch on both sides, and punctuate it like the following example. Wright describes how his mother’s illness affected him: My mother’s suffering grew into a symbol in my mind, gathering to itself all the poverty, the ignorance, the helplessness; the painful, baffling, hunger-ridden days and hours; the restless moving, the futile seeking, the uncertainty, the fear, the dread. (Wright 29)

7. Handling Quotes in Your Text Author’s last name and page number(s) of quote must appear in the text Romantic poetry is characterized by the“spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.”(Wordsworth 263) Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a“spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.”(263)

8. Schedule • Wed • Body #2 • Thurs • Body #3 • Fri • Conclusion • Mon • Period to Type • Tuesday • FWD Movie • Wed • FWD Movie • Thurs • ? • Fri • ?