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Activity 1.15
Lesson: Incorporating Quoted Text Learning Targets
• Correctly incorporate quoted material as textual evidence in writing. • Use an ellipsis to indicate an omission.
You will often incorporate quotations to provide textual evidence for your ideas.
Use quotation marks: When you are quoting directly from a text (not paraphrasing or summarizing), place the
text’s exact words inside quotation marks.
Frederick Douglass writes of the “wretchedness of slavery” and the “blessedness of freedom.”
Place punctuation correctly: Use opening and closing quotation marks around each quoted word group. Place periods and commas inside the closing quotation marks even if they are not part of the original quotation. Place question marks and exclamation points inside the closing quotation mark only if they are part of the quotation.
In the poem, Whitman writes about Lincoln’s assassination, grieving that “on the deck my Captain lies, / Fallen cold and dead.”
Whitman addresses Lincoln as a leader and a parent, exclaiming “Here Captain! dear father!” Why, in the face of the captain’s death, does the speaker say “Exult O shores”?
Omitting text from a quotation: Use ellipses to show omissions from quoted text.
Douglass writes, “There I was . . . without home and without friends.” [The ellipses show where words that Douglass included have been left out.]
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