10/23 and 10/24: Civil Disobedience Research!

I hope all of you had a great and safe homecoming. I saw many of you at the dance and err...well...uh... you are "interesting" dancers....

Anyhow:
I. Civil Disobedience: Defined: Protesting rules or laws that a person or group disagrees with because they are unethical, unjust, or wrong. The protest is usually, breaking the rule or law in question (only that law). Protesters willingly accept the punishment for this crime (see Henry David Thoreau 412 or Martin Luther King, Jr. 180)
II. Research Project
A. Work Cited entry: Remember to use www.citationmachine.net to format it correctly. Quick Rules: Use MLA. Select the correct format (Web Page or Online Encyclopedia?). You must have two. They are listed alphabetically at the end of your document.

B. Parenthetical Citation: Every time you use information that came from ANY source, you must give credit to that source. After you use a quote, paraphrase, or summary from a source, give credit at the end of the last sentence using that information.

example. MLK was a good guy. He preached for compassion and non-violent resistance (Author's last name).

The "good guy" part was mine. The second part came from a different source.

So, what do you do if there is no author? Use whatever comes first in your work cited, usually the "title of page."

C. Computer lab, write two paragraphs. 1. Briefly outline the events for which they are most famous. 2. Relate their philosophies, etc., to Civil Disobedience.

III. NEW RESEARCH: Choose a topic:

Identify a problem at any one of the following levels:
Global
National
State
City/County
Family/Friend
Self

HOMEWORK: finish the civil disobedience research project, list topics for each level that you may be interested in, do the online blog (see next post)