Using quotes appropriately

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Quote commandments

1. Evidence must support the claim2. Avoid the quote bomb3. Fully explain your quote (Put it in

Context)

Evidence must support your claim!

Example #1Napoleon strategically makes Snowball

look unintelligent and makes himself look superior. For Example, “The dogs were gaining on him…with a few inches to spare he slipped through a hole in the hedge and was seen no more” (68).

Evidence must support your claim!

Example #1Napoleon strategically makes Snowball

look unintelligent and makes himself look superior. For Example, “The dogs were gaining on him…with a few inches to spare he slipped through a hole in the hedge and was seen no more” (68).

Quote does not support the claim

Evidence must support your claim!

Example #1Napoleon strategically makes Snowball

look unintelligent and makes himself look superior. For Example, “it was he who advocated for it from the beginning, and the plan which Snowball had drown on the floor of the incubator shed had actually been stolen from among Napoleon’s papers” (61).

Please note that period goes AFTER citation

Avoid the Quote bomb. Set up your quotes

Example # 2Boxer is described as a very loyal horse, especially towards Napoleon. “Napoleon is always right” (pg. 70). He really trusts the leaders of Animal Farm and supports every decision they make because he can’t think on his own due to his witlessness.

Avoid the Quote bomb. Set up your quotes

Example # 2Boxer is described as a very loyal horse, especially towards Napoleon. This character trait is shown by the phrase he says over an over again: “Napoleon is always right” (pg. 70). He really trusts the leaders of Animal Farm and supports every decision they make because he can’t think on his own due to his witlessness.

Put the quote in context

Example: Squealer was continually spreading lies that burned Snowball’s reputation as an ally and leader. He stated“as to the battle of Cowshed, I believe the time will come when we shall find that Snowball’s part in it was much exaggerated” (70).

Put the quote in context

Example #3Squealer was continually spreading lies that burned Snowball’s reputation as an ally and leader. When the animals tried to argue that Snowball had been the great leader who was at the head of the charge in the battle of Cowshed, Squealer was able to convince them otherwise by stating, “as to the battle of Cowshed, I believe the time will come when we shall find that Snowball’s part in it was much exaggerated” (70).

Tips Use parenthesis and page number for direct quotes“The pigs had an ever harder struggle to counteract the lies put about by Moses” (27).

Summarize ideas, or events without quotes.Napoleon then used the dogs to run Snowball off of the farm (58).

Weave textual evidence into your sentencesBoxer was extremely loyal and hard working and was described as the “admiration of everybody” (36).

Use in text citationsAt the end of chapter two, the animals forget about the milk.

Practice

• Read “The Fly”

• Set up, correctly match, and fully explain a quote to answer the following question

The fly in the story is a metaphor for one of the characters. Which one? Explain how you know.