Watch this four minute video and then summarize it  in four or five sentences so that you are explaining the video without just using the narrator's words. Here is the citation for the video.

Understanding: Bacteria Discovery Education,  2004 . Full Video.
     Discovery Education. Web. 6 November 2012. <http://www.discoveryeducation.com/>.

Why People Should Not Plagiarize

Reasons not to plagiarize 

What happened when a CNN reporter plagiarized

Put down reasons in the comment section (extra credit, 5 points)

Summarizing

The Hunger Games

You and your friend are looking at books in the school library and your friend asks you what The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is about because she heard it was an award-winning book. You quickly read the following blurb inside the front flap of the book and then tell your friend what?

After you write a summary in the comment area have someone in the class respond to your comment and state if they feel that what you wrote was a summary or a plagiarism of the blurb. The student must also comment on whether he/she feels your summary is an accurate retelling and why. You are to do the same for someone else.

"In the ruins of a place known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlaying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.

Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister's place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before -- and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is a win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love."

Frankenstein

http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=4&hid=17&sid=63ac6d87-8171-478a-ad89-f034afc3bfd5%40sessionmgr15&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=f5h&AN=54395690

The link above is from Lili.org, consider how to summarize it without plagiarizing. Also include some of the information is quote form.  Your summary of a portion of this text should be five to ten sentences long.

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Citing Sources--Easier or Harder Than it Used to Be?

 This post is simply for your information and use.

So in the past you had to write a bibliography by hand, looking carefully at the title page of the book for the information to put in your handwritten or typed bibliography. You had to remember all the things to put in the bibliography like title, author and copyright and then put the commas and periods in the right place. Now the computer will do that for you and tell you what information you need, but finding the information you need on a website, like when it was last updated or who the author is can be really hard to fine. However the computer program will organize all the information for you on your works cited page. That is if you can get the program to work for you! Which do you think is easier--the older way when we only had books or the newer way where we have the computer to help us cite electronic resources?

Why do people plagiarize?

Please give three reasons why someone might copy something off a website rather than summarize it in their own words or put key phrases in quotation marks.

If you need help with this look at the following website--be sure not to copy and paste information from this website, but rather put the answer in your own words!  Answer in three complete sentences.
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http://www.plagiarism.org/plag_article_educational_tips_on_plagiarism_prevention.html

Was it plagiarized or just inspired?

Oregon Humane Society Poster Contest

Suddenly I began to hear the whispers--she copied from her friend. She did not do her own work. Her picture of a cat should not be hanging in the hallway. She should not have won first place for her grade. She copied, she cheated, it was not her own work. She did not deserve the pizza coupon that she won.
I talked to her friend--did she copy her picture? Did she allow her to copy her drawing of a cat? It turned out that at first she had, but then she told her to stop, that the two pieces of art were too similar. Did the second girl who won the pizza coupon plagiarize? 

In the comment section answer this question in three complete sentences: What do you think plagiarism is?
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