Wednesday, May 31

Today we read two chapters from Tuesdays With Morrie. The topics under discussion were marriage and our culture. If you were absent, please read these chapters - there's a link to a PDF version of the text on a previous post. Your homework is to read for 20 minutes and prepare for the semester final.

A few periods also had questions about the final exam. One had to do with the various techniques we learned this year regarding how to set up a quote or textual evidence. Here are some examples of the three techniques we learned this year:

1. Blended or embedded citation:

In Tuesdays With Morrie, Mitch Albom recounts how Morrie once stopped students from chanting at a basketball game by asking “What’s wrong with being number two?” (159).

2. Use a comma and a verb:

In Tuesdays With Morrie, when Mitch Albom asks Morrie what he thinks about marriage, Morrie replies, “Personally, if you don’t try it, I think you’re missing a hell of a lot” (148).

3. Use a colon after a complete sentence:

Mitch Albom describes his book, Tuesdays With Morrie, as the final thesis he completes with his old professor: “Dying man talks to younger man. Tells him what he needs to know” (127).