ASSIGNMENT Incorporating Quotations Read each of the following passages. Then for each, write one or two sentences incorporating a quotation. Also incorporate in your sentence( s) the author's name and the title of the work. Choose a different way of incorporating the quote each time so that all three ways are represented: (1) as a grammatical part of your own sentence, (2) with a speech tag such as "he says" or "she writes," and (3) with a complete sentence and a colon. Put the page number in parentheses and punctuate correctly according to MLA Passage 1 The school district [in Washington, DC] Michelle Rhee inherited in 2007 was in freefall. Not only had student enrollment plummeted and test scores scraped the bottom of any national rankings, but also many principals had lost control of their schools. Rhee's response to the latter was to eject (or offer voluntary retirement to) nearly fifty principals who had tolerated those conditions. Her yardstick for progress was basic. In the first year, a principal entering an out-of-control school must succeed in "locking down" the school: seize control of the hallways, bathrooms, lunchrooms, and the nearby city blocks during school dismissal and ensure calm and respect in the classrooms. If principals succeed with that first-year lockdown but test scores still look miserable, they generally got a pass. The second and third years, however, measurable "teaching and learning" was supposed to kick in. If that didn't happen, the principal was "non-reappointed," the district's euphemism for getting fired. Not surprisingly, a lot of principals stumbled along that path, which means a lot of non-reappointments — and a lot of interviews for new principals. Source : Richard Whitmire, The Bee-Eater (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2011): pp. 131- 32.

Passage 2 Back in the 1970s, organic food had no such positive image. Many dismissed it as a fringy fad served cold with an eat-your-spinach sermon. How could organic taste good? Indeed, taste was the key challenge. Organic advocates couldn't popularize a cuisine simply by declaring it spiritually and ecologically superior. The world, like my mother, was not waiting for or willing to eat inedible soul food. To win acceptance, it had to be truly delectable. But that would take a while. Many of us got involved in the organic movement for political reasons — to protest industrial agriculture. Some of us were back-to-the-land rebels with a strong passion for eating locally grown food. Others were food purists, excited by the opportunity to propagate and preserve heirloom varieties of produce and seed stocks. Still others came to the cause simply for the joy of growing our own food, talented amateurs at best who cared more about its appeal to a diner's political conscience than to his or her taste buds. Luckily, what began as a philosophical fondness for dishes like brown rice and seaweed eventually matured into a tasty cuisine that attracted talented chefs, notably my friend Alice Waters, who called organics "the delicious revolution." Source : Gary Hirshberg, "Organics — Healthy Food, and So Much More," in Karl Weber, ed., Food, Inc.: How Industrial Food Is Making Us Sicker, Fatter and Poorer — And What We Can about It (New York: Participant Media, 2009), p. 49.