Writing Homework Help

Title Format Assignment

Please annotate the directions and follow them carefully.

Directions:  You must research and find the proper format for the following titles.  The titles must be formatted to CURRENT MLA standards. Find the correct way the titles should be formatted in an essay.

Rewrite the title using the proper format.  The titles you submit should not be in all capital letters as they appear here.

We are NOT discussing in-text citation and the way a citation  would appear in the MLA Works Cited page (see below). If you post the following, it will be marked wrong.

Kincaid, Jamaica. “Girl.” The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories, edited by Tobias Wolff, Vintage, 1994, pp. 306-07.

DO NOT ADD: the author’s name, the publisher, the publication date.

Focus on finding the proper format, the appearance, of each title from various genre of literature.

Because you were given class time to complete this assignment, the due date is non-negotiable.

THE STREET (Book)

THE FLOWERS (short story)

EGO TRIPPING (THERE MAY BE A REASON WHY) (poem)

PARIS IS BURNING (documentary)

THE SUBWAY SOIREE (painting)

SCHOOLS ARE GIVEN A GRADE (newspaper article)

BOSTON GLOBE (newspaper)

NEW ENGLAND MEDICAL JOURNAL (journal)

BLACK PANTHER (movie)

RED BONE (song)

HOW TO FIND A THEME (youtube video title)

LOVECRAFT COUNTRY(television drama series)

Second part

take a moment to ponder the title EGO TRIPPING (THERE MAY BE A REASON WHY).  Even if you are familiar with this poem, annotate this title.  What does it tell us?  What are you expecting to read?  What do you see in the title?  What does the title imply?You do not have to answer each of these questions in your response. Use them to guide you as you prepare your analysis of the title.

Please do not begin reading the text before you complete this exercise.

Please respond to two classmates’ posts 

third part: https://online.bhcc.edu/pluginfile.php/2138750/mod… 

Directions: Annotate the poem. 

Do not post a picture of your annotations. You will be unable to do so.  However, this assignments asks for the fruits from your annotations.

Please read the poem out loud at least one time. Listen to the Youtube recording of the poem. The link to the recording is found in the attachment.

Listen to the recording after you have annotated the poem.  Do this after you have annotated the poem.  

1. In a short summary, compare and contrast your experience reading the poem silently,  reading it out loud, and listening to the recording.

2. Submit the poem’s theme.

3. Include three pieces of evidence directly from the text (the poem) that supports the theme you have identified. Use quotation marks around the evidence from the text.

4. Then, go back to the “How to Find a Theme” Youtube video. Use three pieces of evidence directly from the video that supports the theme you have identified. Transcribe word-for-word from the video.