Conventions on Writing About Literature and Citing Sources.
1. Fix the dropped quotation: Juliet is trapped. “Hang, beg, starve, die in the streets.” This shows her father is cruel.
Answer 1
Capulet answers his daughter’s refusal with a list of outcomes rather than an argument — “hang, beg, starve, die in the streets” (3.5.194) — and the absence of any conditional in the line is what makes it a threat rather than a warning.
2. Quote two lines of verse inside your own sentence, correctly punctuated.
Answer 2
Romeo greets the balcony with a question he does not want answered: “But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? / It is the east, and Juliet is the sun” (2.2.2–3). Slash for the line break, line numbers in brackets, full stop outside.
3. Correct the tense: Rice showed the community as prepared, and Evan decided to go hunting.
Answer 3
Rice shows the community as prepared, and Evan decides to go hunting. Present tense for the text; past only for the world outside it.
4. This citation is wrong three ways: (Rice, page 71, Moon of the Crusted Snow).
Answer 4
(Rice 71) — surname and page, no comma, no “page”, no title. The title belongs in the Works Cited entry.
5. Write a Works Cited entry for the novel and for the play.
Answer 5
Rice, Waubgeshig. Moon of the Crusted Snow. ECW Press, 2018. Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. Edited by Roma Gill, Oxford University Press, 2001.
6. Take one claim from your current draft and find the shortest quotation that proves it.
Answer 6
No fixed answer. The test: if your quotation is longer than your analysis of it, the paragraph is not finished.
Curriculum connection
C3.7
produce pieces of published work to meet criteria identified by the teacher, based on the curriculum expectations (e.g., adequate development of information and ideas, logical organization, appropriate use of form and style, appropriate use of conventions)
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C3.5
proofread and correct their writing, using guidelines developed with the teacher and peers (e.g., consult print and electronic resources to ensure that words with more than one connotation are used appropriately in the context; discuss with a partner how to correct identified problems)
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