Transcript Note Cards - Downtown Magnets High School

Topic: Focus Aspect #
 Your note cards should include your topic
and one of the focus aspects at the top left.
 At the top right, write the source number
that corresponds to the appropriate Works
Cited card.
 At the bottom right, write a parenthetical
citation where the information was found.
(author p#)
Taking Notes:
1. List the main points from a long
text in your own words.
2. Quote significant passages only if
it’s from a primary source
(interview, diary, memoir,
autobiography or a literary source
(novel or poem).
Quote Significant Passages from Primary
or Literary Sources ONLY!
 Be careful to copy a significant passage word
for word!
 Use quotation marks to show what words
were copied.
 Use an ellipses to show where you omitted
words in a quote (but make sure the quote
makes sense without those words!)
Quotes – Using Ellipses
 If you omit a few words, use 3 dots:
 “The speaker’s obstinate carriage, square coat,
square legs, square shoulders…all helped the
emphasis” (Dickens 1).
 If you omit sentences, use 4 dots
 “The scene was a plain, bare, monotonous vault of a
schoolroom….The speaker, and the schoolmaster,
and the third grown person present… swept with
their eyes the inclined plane of little vessels then
and there arranged in order, ready to have imperial
gallons of facts poured into them until they were
full to the brim” (Dickens 1).
Quotes within your Quote
 If you are quoting text that already includes
dialogue in quotes, change the dialogue
quotes to single quotations:
 Example:
“’Girl number twenty,’ said Mr. Gradgrind,
squarely pointing with his square forefinger,
‘I don’t know that girl.’”
(Dickens 2)
How would you punctuate this and add a
citation (from page 449 of your World
History textbook)?
In school, young Hitler was known as a
ringleader. One of his teachers recalled, “He
demanded of his fellow pupils their
unqualified obedience.”
Parenthetical Citations
 Always cite your source in parentheses at the
end of:
 Your notes
 Any passage that you quote
 See the Parenthetical Citation handout or
DMHS Style Manual (p. 22-26) for how to cite
sources.
Works Cited
 Ellis, Elisabeth Gaynor, and Anthony Esler. World
History: The Modern World. Boston: Pearson Prentice
Hall, 2007.
 Metropolis. Dir. Fritz Lang. 1927. DVD. Kino Intl.
Corp., 2002.
NOW – Create Note Cards!
 Browse the World History textbook and locate the
sections that address your topic
 Decide which focus aspects are covered
 Create Note Cards with these focus aspect headings
and the source number
 Cite the author(s) and page number where the
information was found
 Write your Name, Period#, B17 on the back of each
card