1. (Feedback to students last year)
Formative Assessment
(Feedback to students last year)

2. General points for essays
Grading
No F’s (unless you didn’t turn it in), some D’s. Mostly B/C’s
Main focus: interpreting quotes/making connections
Biggest hurt: proper punctuation and grammar
General points for essays
Formal writing
No 1st or 2nd person (I, me, you, etc.)
No contractions: does not vs. doesn’t
Documents/Primary source titles: italicized
History essays: all past tense
These particular readings: “documents,” not articles

3. Quotations
Proper quotation punctuation: last word, quotation, citation, period
Wrong: end (Jefferson)”. End.” (Jefferson).
Correct: end” (Jefferson).
Note: if no citation, period goes before quotation: end.”
Citation comes at end: equal” (Jefferson).
Ellipses only used to replace words:
Wrong: He sees “…a men are created equal…”
Correct: He sees “all men…equal.”
Placing quotes in writing:
Wrong: “All men are created equal” (Jefferson).
Correct: Locke was the first thinker to say this, stating that all men have the right to “live as he pleases and not be tied to any laws” (Locke).