Students had ten minutes to review for the vocabulary quiz at the beginning of the period.
After the quiz, Mr. Stone distributed the grading rubric for the research report and the peer critique sheet for the students to acquaint themselves with the specifics of the assignment.
Mr. Stone read through pages 110 to 112 in Diana Hacker's A Pocket Style Manual, elaborating with personal commentary and examples.
Mr. Stone requires students to have at least one direct quotation in their research report. No more than one direct quotation (of two or fewer lines) should be used per page of the report. Students should primarily paraphrase borrowed material.
The class examined ellipsis marks, brackets, and long quotations. Long quotations are not permitted for the current assignment.
Homework: Write a body paragraph of your research paper. Remember that it needs to contain a minimum of eleven sentences--a topic sentence, three three-sentence chunks (supporting ideas with a ration of two sentences of concrete details to one sentence of commentary), and a closing/transitional sentence.
Mr. Stone emphasized the change in ratio due to the expository nature of this research report.
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