How to do a title card
Step by Step Directions
Step 1: Write your name on the back of the index card.
Step 2: On the top line of the card, write the chapter number.
Step 3: On the same line in quotation marks, write the title you created for the chapter. Remember to capitalize the first word, last word, and all important words of the title.
Step 4: Indent your paragraph on the next line.
Step 5. Explain why this is a good title in a complete sentence.
Step 6: Find a quote to support what you are trying to say. Remember to use quotation marks.
Step 7: Cite the quote with parenthetical documation (Author's name and page number).
Step 8. Explain what makes the quote important with a compound sentence. You may use more than one sentence if you need to.
Step 9: Highlight the comma and the conjunction in your compound sentence.
Step 10: Somewhere in the card use figurative language by writing a simile/metaphor/personification/hyperbole to enhance what you are talking about. Then in parentheses label what type of figurative language it is.
Step 11: Highlight the sentence with your figurative language.
Here's an example to see how this should look:
Chapter 1 - "The Wise Bovine"
This chapter is mainly about the cows and the path they created. The cow path wandered (personification) all over the place until it reached the woods. "But on reaching the shadows of the first trees, it veered sharply, swung out in a wide arc as if, for the first time, it had reason to think where it was going, and passed around" (Babbitt 5). Inside the woods, there is an ash tree and a concealed spring. If people found these two dangerous things, the whole world would be in trouble. Therefore the cows were wise to avoid the wood, creating a path around the woods, so since people follow the path, they cannot go into the wood to find the tree and spring.
Chapter 2 - "Tuck Dreams of Death"
This title is important because Tuck is never happy in life. He is only happy in sleep. "'I was having that dream again, the good one where we're all in heaven and never heard of Treegap" (Babbitt 10). At the end of the chapter, the reader learned that Tuck and his family have not changed at all for eighty-seven years. This means they probably can live forever which ties to the word "Everlasting" in the title of the book. Tuck is sad because he cannot die and go to heaven since he has everlasting life. This is significant because there is probably something in Treegap where the other characters live that will grant everlasting life, and Tuck wishes he never found it. Therefore Tuck's dreams walk a dark path. (personification)
Step 1: Write your name on the back of the index card.
Step 2: On the top line of the card, write the chapter number.
Step 3: On the same line in quotation marks, write the title you created for the chapter. Remember to capitalize the first word, last word, and all important words of the title.
Step 4: Indent your paragraph on the next line.
Step 5. Explain why this is a good title in a complete sentence.
Step 6: Find a quote to support what you are trying to say. Remember to use quotation marks.
Step 7: Cite the quote with parenthetical documation (Author's name and page number).
Step 8. Explain what makes the quote important with a compound sentence. You may use more than one sentence if you need to.
Step 9: Highlight the comma and the conjunction in your compound sentence.
Step 10: Somewhere in the card use figurative language by writing a simile/metaphor/personification/hyperbole to enhance what you are talking about. Then in parentheses label what type of figurative language it is.
Step 11: Highlight the sentence with your figurative language.
Here's an example to see how this should look:
Chapter 1 - "The Wise Bovine"
This chapter is mainly about the cows and the path they created. The cow path wandered (personification) all over the place until it reached the woods. "But on reaching the shadows of the first trees, it veered sharply, swung out in a wide arc as if, for the first time, it had reason to think where it was going, and passed around" (Babbitt 5). Inside the woods, there is an ash tree and a concealed spring. If people found these two dangerous things, the whole world would be in trouble. Therefore the cows were wise to avoid the wood, creating a path around the woods, so since people follow the path, they cannot go into the wood to find the tree and spring.
Chapter 2 - "Tuck Dreams of Death"
This title is important because Tuck is never happy in life. He is only happy in sleep. "'I was having that dream again, the good one where we're all in heaven and never heard of Treegap" (Babbitt 10). At the end of the chapter, the reader learned that Tuck and his family have not changed at all for eighty-seven years. This means they probably can live forever which ties to the word "Everlasting" in the title of the book. Tuck is sad because he cannot die and go to heaven since he has everlasting life. This is significant because there is probably something in Treegap where the other characters live that will grant everlasting life, and Tuck wishes he never found it. Therefore Tuck's dreams walk a dark path. (personification)