Transcript Integrating Quotes - Mrs. Manning @ OCHS

Integrating Quotes
How to introduce your quote…
• A quotation should never stand alone, so it should not suddenly appear out
of nowhere. You have to introduce the quotation.
• Provide the reader with some kind of information about the quotation (this
means you have to explain why you used the quote after you write it).
• Name the author and source
Examples of introducing your quotes
1. You can use a full sentence followed by a colon to
introduce a quotation.
Examples:
*The setting emphasizes deception: “Nothing is as it appears.”
* Piercy ends the poem on an ironic note: “To every woman a
happy ending.”
2. You can begin a sentence with your own words, then
complete it with quoted words.
Examples:
* Hamlet’s task is to avenge a “foul and most unnatural murder.”
* The speaker is mystified by her sleeping baby, whose “moth-breath
/ flickers the flat pink roses.”
**Note: A slash with one space on either side ( / ) marks a line
break in the original poem.**
3. To quote an author, you can use an introductory phrase
naming the author, followed by a comma.
**Note: The first letter after the quotation mark should be upper
case.**
Examples:
* In Frost’s words, “Nothing gold can stay.”
* In Giovanni’s view, “Childhood remembrances are always a drag
/ if you’re Black.”
4. You can also use the author’s last name and a present-tense verb
followed by a comma.
**Note: The first letter after the quotation mark should be upper case.**
**Note: Avoid using “says” unless the original words were spoken aloud,
for instance, during an interview.**
Example:
* Polanco writes, “I’d rather be a tall ugly weed.”
Other verbs to use:
Remarks, notes, comments, observes, concludes, reports, maintains,
describes, argues
5. If your lead-in to the quotation ends in “that” or “as”, don’t
follow it with a comma.
**Note: The first letter of the quotation should be lower case.**
Examples:
1. Giovanni argues that “all the while I was quite happy.”
2. Frost interprets the early days of Spring as “her hardest hue to
hold.”
3. Smith describes the independent person as “wind-wavering above
the high, jagged rocks.”
Excerpt 1 & 2 page 50
• Read the excerpts found on page 50 of your text.
• Highlight the integrated quotes within the excerpts.
• Annotate next to each how the quote was integrated.
2nd and 4th Periods: Now you practice…
• Go back and look at the interview questions and responses you did with a partner in
class with activity 1.6
• Get out the paragraph you wrote about your partner.
• Check your quotes!
• Make sure you used correct grammar and punctuation. If not, fix it!
• Make sure you used one of the ways you just learned about to incorporate the quote. If not, fix
it!
• Make sure you explained the importance of the quote after you wrote it!
7th Period: Now you practice…
• Go back and look at the interview questions and responses you did with a partner in
class with activity 1.6
• Write a brief paragraph about your interview
• Be sure to integrate at least 2 quotes from the interview
• Check your quotes!
• Make sure you use correct grammar and punctuation.
• Make sure you use one of the ways you just learned about to incorporate the quote.
• Make sure you explain the importance of the quote after you write it!