Dialogue Tags & Quote Weaving

1. Dialogue Tags & Quote Weaving Incorporating quotes/textual evidence in your essays.

2. Howto integrate quotations There are two techniques: Using dialogue tags Weaving quotations into your sentences

3. NO “SAID” Using dialogue tags Introduce your quotes by stating who is talking and how he/she is saying it. Examples: Calpurnia hollers, The narrator admits, Scout recalls, Lee writes, Jem responds, Atticus questions,

4. Proper Punctuation Be sure to properly use commas and quotation marks. Commas follow the dialog tag: The narrator realizes, Dialogue tag Comma

5. Proper Punctuation • Quotation marks signal the start of a quotation. Be sure that the first letter is capitalized. The narrator realizes, “Pride is a… Quotation Mark Dialogue tag Comma

6. Proper Punctuation Include proper parenthetical citation at the end of the sentence. • The narrator realizes, “Pride is a terrible, wonderful thing” (Hurst 318). Period here. (Author’s last name and page #) No period here.

7. Quote Weaving You can also “weave” quotes into an existing sentence. Weaving requires only using a small part or a phrase of a particular line of text that is important or relevant to your argument.

8. Original Sentence James Hurst communicates a message about pride in his short story, “The Scarlet Ibis.”

9. Quote to Integrate • “Pride is a terrible, wonderful thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death.”

10. Integrated Quotation • James Hurst communicates a message about pride being a “wonderful, terrible thing” in his short story, “The Scarlet Ibis” (Hurst 318).

11. Practice • On the back of your notes: • Write 3 quotes using dialogue tags • Write 3 quotes using quote weaving.

12. Quotes “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.- Atticus Finch” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird “They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

13. Quotes "I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird."― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird “It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird “As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash.” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

14. Quotes “You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fightin' with your head for a change. -Atticus Finch” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird “Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird “Pass the damn ham, please.” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird