The document provides notes and instructions for an upcoming spelling pre-test, vocabulary assignment, and country reports due on various dates in early January, including reminders about proper formatting, citations, and common errors to avoid based on comments from a previous assignment. Students are given directions for completing drafts, peer edits, and final versions of their country reports along with guidelines for in-text citations and what constitutes common knowledge not needing attribution.

1. January 3, 2012
+Unit 9 Spelling Pre-Test & Lists
+County Report Editing Notes
Spelling & Vocabulary: Unit 9
+Spelling Post Test on Friday, January 6th
+Vocabulary pgs. 102-103 due on Friday, January 6th
Homework:
-Due Friday, Jan. 6->Typed Draft (print 2 copies)
-Due Monday, Jan. 9->Adult Edit (signed form & edited paper)
-Due Friday, Jan. 13->Country Report
(Title Page, Outline, Paper, Works Cited Page, Map, Flag, EC)
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2. Miss Pfund's Comments from your Country Reports...
Absolutely NO... Friendly Reminders...
-Sentence Fragments -Numbers >100, use numerical form
Numbers <100, spell out
-Parentheses
-Explain yourself clearly!
-Dashes
ex. President-Barak Obama -Subject and Verb must agree!
ex. Many tourists is visiting Egypt
-Questions each year.
-Vague word choice -YOU ARE NOT A TRAVEL AGENT.
ex. things, a lot, stuff
-Watch repetition
-"In conclusion...", "Here are some
facts...", "I will tell you...", "You can -Use a topic sentence
see..."
-History should be written in past
-Plagarism tense and in chronological order.
(Are these your own words? Do you
know what this means?
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3. Citing your Sources
In the body of your report, there will be times when you need to tell where you got your
information. This is known as citing your sources. Anytime you give statistics, opinions,
or material that is contrary to popular belief or is only found in one source, you MUST
tell where that information came from.
Here’s how: After the information, put parentheses. In the parentheses put the author’s
last name and the page number, like this. (Jones 14) This tells the reader you used the
book by someone named Jones and this information was on page 14 of that book. For an
internet source do it the same way. If there is no author listed, put the title of the
article/website and page number, if given.
You do not have to tell where all your information came from. For example, almost every
source would
say that George Washington was the first president. That is considered common
knowledge and it would not be necessary to tell where you got that material.
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4. Attachments
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