TAG and Parenthetical Citations Unit I Remediation Using the TAG Whenever you write about a piece of literature you must include the title author and genre Titles of poems songs and short stories use quotation marks titles of longer works such as books and plays should ID: 231137
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Unit I Remediation:
T.A.G. and Parenthetical CitationsSlide3
Unit I Remediation: Using the T.A.G.
Whenever you write about a piece of literature, you must include the
title, author, and genre
.
Titles of poems, songs, and short stories use “quotation marks;” titles of longer works, such as books and plays, should be
underlined
(if writing by hand) or
italicized
(if typing).
Example:
In
Cynthia Ryland’s short story, “Checkouts,”
the protagonist is a teenage girl who is upset about moving away from her hometown.
The part in yellow is the T.A.G
.Slide4
Unit I Remediation: T.A.G. Practice
Create a chart on your paper with 4 rows and 4 columns.
William Shakespeare’s play,
Romeo and Juliet,
tells the story of two star-crossed lovers whose lives end in tragedy.
Richard Connell’s short story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” is set on a Caribbean island inhabited by the murderous general
Zaroff
.One of my favorite poems is “The Second Coming” by W.B. Yeats.Various interconnected storylines overlap in Quentin Tarentino’s classic 1995 film, Pulp Fiction.
Title
Author
Genre
1.
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
Play
2.
“The Most Dangerous Game”
Richard Connell
Short story
3.
“The Second Coming”
W.B. Yeats
Poem
4.
Pulp Fiction
Quentin
Tarentino
(director)
FilmSlide5
Unit I Remediation: T.A.G. Practice
The following passage is the first paragraph of O. Henry’s short story, “The Gift of the Magi.”
One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents
of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. Three times Della counted it. One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas.
Write the introductory sentence of a paragraph about this passage, using the T.A.G. correctly.
In O. Henry’s short story, “The Gift of the Magi,”
a woman is nearly penniless on Christmas eve.Slide6
Unit I Remediation: Citing Direct
Quotes
Direct quotes should never stand alone; incorporate them into your own sentence.
Parenthetical citations should include the author’s last name and the page number.
Example:
The young woman is described as patient, but “lacking in wit and sophistication” (
Markle
5).General Zaroff enjoyed “an exceedingly good dinner” before going to bed (Connell 12).Slide7
Unit I Remediation: Citing Direct Quotes
The passage below is from the second page of the same story, O. Henry’s “The Gift of the Magi.”
"Jim, darling,"
Della
cried, "don't look at me that way. I had my hair cut off and sold it because I couldn't have lived through Christmas without giving you a present. It'll grow out again--you won't mind, will you? I just had to do it. My hair grows awfully fast. Say 'Merry Christmas!' Jim, and let's be happy. You don't know what a nice-what a beautiful, nice gift I've got for you."
Write a sentence about the passage, using a direct quote and citing it correctly.
In this passage, Della is clearly excited because she has bought Jim “a beautiful, nice gift” (Henry 2).Slide8
Putting it all together…
Read the passage below. It is the
first paragraph
of
Cynthia Ryland’s short story, “Checkouts.”
Then, answer the question that follows. Please use complete sentences
.
Her parents had moved her to Cincinnati, to a large house with beveled glass windows and several porches and the history her mother liked to emphasize. You’ll be lonely at first, they admitted, but you’re so nice you’ll make friends fast. And as an impulse tore at her to lie on the floor, to hold to their ankles and tell them she felt she was dying, to offer anything, anything at all, so they might allow her to finish growing up in the town of her childhood, they firmed their mouths and spoke from their chests, and they said, It’s decided.
Constructed Response Question: Summarize the conflict described in the passage. Be sure to tell whether the conflict is internal or external. Use one correctly cited direct quote from the passage to support your point. Remember to include the T.A.G. Slide9
T.A.G.? Correctly cited quote? Conflict?
Title: Checkouts
Author: Cynthia Ryland
Genre: Short story
Page Number: 1
Type of conflict: External (girl vs. parents)
In Cynthia Ryland’s short story, “Checkouts,” the protagonist is experiencing an external conflict. The conflict is between the girl and her parents, who “had moved her to Cincinnati” when she would have preferred “to finish growing up in the town of her childhood” (Ryland 1).