Responding to Quotations in an Informational Text

The practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own.

• Citation
• Bibliography
• Plagiarism
• Newton's Law

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.W.8.8

These are places where you get information for your research:

• plagiarism

• sources

• publishers

• MLA

The voyage was an ordeal, but it was worth it. They were on their way to America.

The great majority of immigrants landed in New York City, at America’s busiest port. They never forgot their first glimpse of the Statue of Liberty.

Edward Corsi, who later became United States Commissioner of Immigration, was a ten-year-old Italian immigrant when he sailed into New York harbor in 1907:

My first impressions of the New World will always remain etched in my memory, particularly that hazy October morning when I first saw Ellis Island. The steamer Florida, fourteen days out of Naples, filled to capacity with 1600 natives of Italy, had weathered one of the worst storms in our captain’s memory; and glad we were, both children and grown-ups, to leave the open sea and come at last through the Narrows into the Bay.

Which lines from the excerpt are an example of paraphrasing by the author?

• The voyage was an ordeal, but it was worth it. They were on their way to America.

• My first impressions of the New World will always remain etched in my memory . . .

To paraphrase means

• copy authors words

• to restate the author’s words another way.

• o translate the author’s words into another language.

Read the excerpt from Immigrant Kids by Russell Freedman.

Immigrants usually crossed the Atlantic as steerage passengers. Reached by steep, slippery stairways, the steerage lay deep down in the hold of the ship. It was occupied by passengers paying the lowest fare.

Men, women, and children were packed into dark, foul-smelling compartments. They slept in narrow punks stacked three high. They had no showers, no lounges, and no dining rooms. Food served from huge kettles was dished into dinner pails provided by the steamship company. Because steerage conditions were crowded and uncomfortable, passengers spent as much time as possible up on deck.

The voyage was an ordeal, but it was worth it. They were on their way to America.

Which is an example of paraphrasing the excerpt?



• One author describes the immigrant voyage this way: “the steerage lay deep down in the hold of the ship. It was occupied by passengers paying the lowest fare.”

• The travel conditions on immigrant ships were very poor. People had no room to sleep comfortably, the food was not good, and there was no way to keep clean.

Read the topic from Immigrant Kids by Russell Freedman.

Immigrants feared the examinations at Ellis Island.

Which quotation best develops this topic?

• “there was this terrible anxiety that one of us might be rejected”

• Mother was an indomitable spirit and finally made them understand”

Read Edward Corsi’s quotation from the book Immigrant Kids by Russell Freedman.

Edward Corsi, who later became United States Commissioner of Immigration, was a ten-year-old Italian immigrant when he sailed into New York harbor in 1907:

The officers of the ship . . . went striding up and down the decks shouting orders and directions and driving the immigrants before them. Scowling and gesturing, they pushed and pulled the passengers, herding us into separate groups as though we were animals. A few moments later we came to our dock, and the long journey was over.

How does this quotation add credibility to Freedman’s statement that the immigrant voyages were not pleasant?

• It is from an actual writer who wrote about a fictional family immigrating to the United States.

• It is written by a historian who studied the material

• It is from an actual immigrant who experienced rough treatment by the ship’s workers.

Paraphrasing should....

• convey the same message as the original quote

• convey a new and different message from the original quote

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CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.W.8.8

Copying and pasting direct quotes is never allowed when creating informational projects!!!

• TRUE: All information must be paraphrased, always.

• FALSE: Information can be copied and pasted as long as it is a small chunk, in quotes, and the source is properly credited.

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CCSS.W.8.2B

CCSS.W.8.8

You don’t have to cite paraphrased information because you are not quoting it directly.

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