EF5/6 Using Quoted Material

" " quotation marks have three purposes
1. titles of stories or texts that do not their own covers
"The Rosa Parks Story"
"The Landlady"
In Context - has its own covers, a book by itself, a book title, using writing by hand
In Context italics, when using computer

2. to show special usage of a word, usually irony

3. to show quoted material ""

Writing paragraphs - use words from the text, story, book

Copy from the book. 

They had Rosa Parks to thank for lighting the fuse.
COPIED XXX
"They had Rosa Parks to thank for lighting the fuse." XXX

Choose a few words, 2-3 words, and quote it.
Pick the most important 2-3 words.

"lighting the fuse"

Incorportate this quotation into our sentence. We write the sentence

MODEL
People consider Rosa Parks a hero because she was responsible for "lighting the fuse" (35) that got people to protest.

"lighting the fuse" proof, evidence, shows something is true 

Dr. Martin Luther King started a "non-violent revolt" (35) against the unfair laws.

Grammatical

The protesters were "on fire for freedom" (35) because they had suffered discrimination for so long.

Shorter is better. Longer is not better.

The Civil Rights marches were made up of volunteer "peaceful protesters" (35) who wanted to make a difference.

 Has to be a sentence.

The African-American people of Alabama had spent  generations being "segregated and humiliated" (34) by racist Whites.