Friday, March 14, 2014

How to Do Note Cards






Please make sure you have your full name and date in the upper left hand corner of each page of your note cards.
Number your note cards.
On an 8 by 11 sheet of paper, write the title and the author, the page number,
or the url of your source.
Underneath the title or the url of your source, write Quotation:
Then copy exactly what is written from  your source.
Skip a line, then write Analysis:
Then, in your own words, explain, expand and/or comment on the quotation.
Remember, using seven consecutive words written by someone else without giving him/her credit is plagiarism.
You may put two notecards on the same paper, but you must draw a box around each one to delineate them.

Example:

Notecard #1:
Heroes of the Holocaust, Ted Gottfried, page 14

Quotation:
The Jews were a Semitic people who originated in the Middle East. Their mass exodus from that region was provoked by a series of religious wars between the empires of Islam and the Christian crusaders. Between the sixth and the seventh centuries the minority Jewish population was targeted as heathen by all sides.

Analysis:
The Jews were a product of a diaspora, which means that they were forced from their homeland and made to live in foreign countries amid alien cultures. The people of these foreign countries saw the Jewish immigrants as strange, resented their presence, seeing them as intruders.


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