Wednesday, 2/10 ~ Oh Yeah! I Remember All of the Rules to MLA Citation

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Immigration Research

• Hey! You practiced an annotation. Now let's practice citing it. American Children, Now Struggling to Adjust to Life in Mexico  
• EQ: Do you remember what goes into an annotation?
• EQ: What makes a website legit? What is a disqualifier? More to guide you. And more.
• EQ: How can you manipulate search words on Google to get more information? Click here to expand your brain!

Example
Let's practice: How would you approach this research question: What is the relationship between human trafficking and illegal immigration between Mexico and the U.S.?
EQ: What key words would you use?
EQ: What tricks could you use to narrow the findings?

Journal 9
Using your research question, record 3-5 key words you will use in your search.
Record a search entry that uses at least two tricks from this link. 

Journal 10  ~ Annotations Review
Copy this paragraph into Notability and work on the ordering of the sentences. What order should these sentences go in? Then copy it to your journal as an example annotation.

1. Krikorian says that he doesn't agree with immigrants “becoming an American just by them saying the oath of citizenship.” He believes that they should earn the right to serve in the armed forces by first forming their relationship with the United States.

2. This article supports the opposing position that disagrees with having immigrants as members of the U.S. armed forces. 

3. Author, Mark Krikorian is a nationally recognized expert on immigration issues and Krikorian has been the Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) since 1995.

4. Currently, more than 37,000 green-card holders serve in the military and account for about 3% of active-duty soldiers.

5. He cites this fact to support the idea that the U.S. should be wary of developing a mercenary army that is made up of illegal immigrants who are still loyal to their own countries. 

Research

• First, create a beautiful new Google doc, complete with heading, title (Annotated Bibliography), and drop indentations. See Example.
• Just under the title, type out your research question.
• Find, cite and annotate two articles!
• Turn them in on Google Classroom tonight. 
• Basic rules for overall format:
  
  • one-inch margins (except header is 1/2 inch from top)
  • last name page number as header
  • Title the page Annotated Bibliography (do not underline, quote, bold or italicize the title)
  • Type your research question below the general title.
  • Double space all citations, but do not skip spaces between entries (no double double spaces)
  • Entries should be in alphabetical order by last name
  • Name of publication should be italicized
  • Make sure drop indenting continues throughout the whole source entry
  • Make sure heading has your name, my name, period number and date

HW: Find, cite and annotate two articles tonight and upload them to Google Drive (10 pts. HW Category). BTW, you may want to include a quote in your annotation. It will save you time later.

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