Soph Research Library Lab Day

Today you should be able to complete (and/or take a look at) three things that have to deal with the research paper:

1. How to use the St. Mark's Library Gale Group Databases

Go to the St. Mark's homepage. Click on "Campus Life"---then library, to access the Gale Databases. From school you should be able to access these databases of information immediately. At home, you may need a password. Try "spartan7" or "alilibrary"

You will be able to search more than 30 specialized databases of information. Read the description for each one to choose. You can cross-search multiple databases in the top group. Type in your topic and search. Don't get frustrated. Searching is sometimes a "hit-or-miss" effort.

For today, find at least one source that pertains to your topic. From that source, make one source card and five note cards to bring to class on Friday. How do you do this? See #2.

2. Making source and note cards. Go to Studywiz and read the attached file for these directions.

3. Check out the Citation Machine at Schoolsville. This site will properly format your Works Consulted Page and your in-text citations as long as you put in the correct information. Use it immediately to help you with your source card.

Son of Citation Machine

This MONSTER of a web site will take care of all of your works consulted and in text citation questions.

It's the SON OF CITATION MACHINE found at http://citationmachine.net/

First click the citation format you need on top of the blue column on the left (you're doing an MLA paper) and then the type of resource you wish to cite.

Type in whatever information you can find. Some information is not always posted, like the date something was published. In that case, leave the space blank.

As long as you put in the correct information, then the citation machine will do the rest of the work.

Remember, though, your Works Consulted page, like all items in an MLA paper, must be double-spaced.

SENIORS--One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest--BUY IT!

Buy it TOMORROW at the bookstore or this weekend at a local retail outlet.

$9.99 new at the St. Mark's bookstore or $7.50 used.

We're beginning this early next week.

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

THIS MUST BE POSTED BEFORE SUNDAY NIGHT!
WORTH 20 POINTS, SO DO A GOOD JOB.

Joyce Carol Oates's story provokes thought on many levels, but for this blog, I'd like you to focus on how you see "your" world.

Choose one of these prompts.

1. Share with us an incident in which you lost a little of your childhood innocence and you learned the ropes of the real world.

2. Share with us parts of your “faith life.” Do you attend Church weekly? Read the Bible? Belong to a Church group? Etc. Discuss how this has benefited you and others.

3. Discuss a musical artist or group that promotes aberrant or immoral behavior.

4. Tell me about a musical artist or group whose songs promote meaningful thought or messages.

5. Read what Joyce Carol Oates says about "imagination" :

"For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue [something that can be compared with something else] of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even the wishes of the conscious social self, the life or will or purpose of the imagination is incomprehensible, unpredictable."

In other words, she compares the imagination to a serial killer--it's incomprehensible and unpredictable.

Your prompt? write about work of art [fiction, film, painting, etc.] where you believe the artist's imagination was either [or both] incomprehensible or unpredictable, and maybe even a little on the dangerous side.