Capitalization of Titles :: MLA Style

📜 Title Up Like a Pro! 📜
Learn these tricks to make your titles pop!

  1. Double Space for Drama:
    Leave a blank line between your title and the start of your text. It’s like giving your title its own spotlight! ✨
  2. First, Last, and the Big Shots:
    Capitalize the first word, the last word, and all the important words in between. Important words include nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and even subordinating conjunctions (like “although” or “because”).
    📝 The Great Gatsby Goes Big
  3. Skip the Little Stuff (Unless It’s First):
    Articles (a, an, the), prepositions (to, on, by), and coordinating conjunctions (and, or, but) stay lowercase—unless they’re the first word of your title.
    📝 A Tale of Two Cities, The Road Not Taken
  4. Italics vs. Quotation Marks: Know the Difference!
    • Big works, like books, movies, and magazines, get the fancy italics.
    • Small works, like articles, poems, and song titles, get quotation marks.
      📝 Examples: To Kill a Mockingbird (book), “The Road Not Taken” (poem)
  5. Say It Once, Say It Full:
    When you mention a title in your writing, give the whole thing the first time. After that, feel free to shorten it.
    📝 Example: The Lord of the Rings (first mention); LOTR (next mentions)
  6. Mix It Up in Your Own Titles:
    If you refer to another work in your own title, remember to use quotation marks or italics, just like usual.
    📝 “The Great Gatsby” in Modern Times

According to Purdue OWL

Remember: Titles are like the headlines for your writing—give them style, make them shine, and they’ll make your work look amazing! ✨

What’s going on in this pic? [vts] 2 June 2020 (middle school)

Objective: Use visual thinking strategies to describe the meaning of a visual text.  Look closely at this image, stripped of its caption, and join the conversation about what you and other students see.

1. look closely at the photo; think about these three questions, and answer them completely:

— What is going on in this picture?

— What do you see that makes you say that?

— What more can you find?

2. After you have written your responses, copy them from the Google Doc attached to assignment #A-06022020-7. DO NOT copy the MLA-8 class header. Then, join the conversation by pasting your response in the comments box (WITHOUT the header).

3. Be sure to add your pkcsd email, and to give yourself an identity that includes your name or your initials.

Look closely at this image, stripped of its caption, and join the P[E]ACE conversation.

What’s going on in this pic? [vts] 16 March 2020

Objective: Use visual thinking strategies to describe the meaning of a visual text.  Look closely at this image, stripped of its caption, and join the conversation about what you and other students see. [Click on image to see larger version.]

In your journal, on a numbered page, or on looseleaf, date the page 16 March 2020. Using your best descriptive writing, answer these questions:

 1. What is going on in this picture?
2. Why do you say that?
3.  What else do you see?
4. Count your words, fill in your table of contents.

5. Access Google docs or other text editor
6. Transcribe your journal comments to Google doc or editor.
7. Review your comments and check for mistakes
8. Return to English is My Thinglish
 9. Click LEAVE A COMMENT below the image
10. Paste your comment into the comments section
11.  Submit your comments.
12. Review 3 other PACE students’ comments about this image.
13. Review 3 comments on the New York Times Web site.
14. If you can, paste your comment on the New York Times Web site.
15.  Review at least five student comments and respond to three students’ comments.

 

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Look closely at this image, stripped of its caption, and join the P[E]ACE conversation about what you and other students see. [Click on image to see larger version.]

 

Critical Lens: “The measure . . .” :: 18 Feb. 2020

Look closely at this image, and read its message carefully. Join the P[E]ACE conversation about what you and other students see. [Click on image to see larger version.]

In your journal, analyze this message using the critical lens process:
1. Who is the author, and what is the quotation?
2. Paraphrase (put into your own words) the quotation.
3.  Interpret the quotation (what does the author mean?).
4. Agree or disagree with the quotation.
5. Explain in a few sentences why you agree or disagree.
6. Count your words, fill in your table of contents.
7. Turn and talk to a neighbor about your perceptions.

8. At the end of this Blog post, Click LEAVE A COMMENT or REPLY:  Reply by writing your critical lens journal entry here, including any comments from other students that may have added to your opinion.

What’s going on ..? [vts] 3 February 2020

Look closely at this image, stripped of its caption, and join the moderated conversation about what you and other students see. [Click on image to see larger version.]

In your journal, answer these questions:
1. What is going on in this picture?
2. Why do you say that?
3.  What else do you see?
4. Count your words, fill in your table of contents.
Turn and talk to a neighbor about your perceptions.
Click LEAVE A COMMENT:  Reply to this post by writing your journal entry here, including any comments from other students that may have added to your opinion.

What is going on in the picture?

Look closely at this image, stripped of its caption, and join the P[E]ACE conversation about what you and other students see. [Click on image to see larger version.]