Day 17: APA References Page

Show me what you know! Show me an example of a sentence with a proper in-text citation (this can either be paraphrasing or quoting).

Short List

1. Attendance Check and Warm-up Question
2. References Page Experimental Learning
3. Check Answers and Review
4. Guided Creation of References for the Final Paragraph Portfolio (possible)
5. Homework Review and Draft Return

Homework:
Begin brainstorming or drafting a process paragraph following this prompt. This paragraph will be due TONIGHT by midnight.

Next Friday, revisions of all three paragraphs will be due.  Take a look at this prompt and grading rubric.  On Monday, we will have a peer and self-reviewing time where we will compare our drafts with this rubric and "grade" ourselves, but before then, I would recommend going through the three drafts making them as good as you can based on my feedback, appropriately cited with a references page, and properly formatted.   

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The Details
Schedule of events:

1. [5 minutes] Attendance Check and Warm-up Question

Before we move on to talking about APA References pages, we first have to make sure we all understand in-text citations.

• Tell the person next to you the 4 things you need in an APA in-text citation for quotes. 
• Tell the person next to you the 2 things you need in an APA in-text citation for paraphrases.
• Now tell me why you think we have both in-text and reference page citations?

2. [20-30 minutes estimated] References Page Experimental Learning
Like normal, I think you guys can basically learn how to do this and through the scientific method of observation, hypothesizing, testing your hypothesis, and coming up with conclusions.  So, by following these steps, I'll bet that you can figure out how to appropriately write citations for an APA References page.

Step 1:
Get into partnerships with someone not from your country or language.

Step 2:
Look at this "data."
What trends do you notice?

Step 3:
Post your observations and guesses about how to write a references page citation here.

Step 4:
Try to make citations for these sources in Microsoft Word or in a Google Doc.

Step 5: 
Check your work with these resources.

Resource 1	Resource 2
This resource is simpler and more straight-forward, but not as complete as Resource 2	On the homepage, once you log in, you should see some useful "Assigned Links" in yellow on the middle of the page.

3. [5-10 minutes: length of time and depth of discussion depends on time remaining] Check Answers and Review
The last activity may take some groups a long time and it may be very quick and easy for others.  That is ok.  However, it does make planning the time very difficult.  If everyone finishes somewhat quickly we will present what we did and "teach" each other, reporting on what we learned from our "experimentation."  If it takes everyone a long time, I will simply give feedback from the front or as I come by your small group.

4. [10 minutes] Guided Creation of References for the Final Paragraph Portfolio (possible)
Assuming we have time (which is doubtful) we will also work on going through creating references page citations for the three articles we read for the three paragraphs.  If we do not get to this, we will do this on Monday.

5. [7 minutes] Homework Review and Draft Return
We are one week away when the final draft of our Paragraph Portfolio is due, so it is worthwhile to stop for a few minutes and discuss what the final drafts will be all about, what next week will look like, and to give back your last draft with my feedback.

Homework:
Begin brainstorming or drafting a process paragraph following this prompt. This paragraph will be due TONIGHT by midnight.

Next Friday, revisions of all three paragraphs will be due.  Take a look at this prompt and grading rubric.  On Monday, we will have a peer and self-reviewing time where we will compare our drafts with this rubric and "grade" ourselves, but before then, I would recommend going through the three drafts making them as good as you can based on my feedback, appropriately cited with a references page, and properly formatted.

Attribution: This lesson was based partially on Jihye Yoon's (2011) lesson and inspired by Lynee Lawson's (2012) lesson. In this lesson, I have borrowed things and/or ideas from them both as well as created my own activities.