For the Short Essay you may focus on any of the required readings through week 5: “The Lottery,” “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas,” The Code of Hammurabi, Deuteronomy, Antigone, Dante’s Inferno, “T

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Materials for Your Works Cited Pages


NOTE: When you are writing your essays for this class, you will notice that some of the versions of the primary texts that I have posted do not have any publication information. This is because I like to present the works to you in a consistent Word format. However, when you write your papers, you will be required to provide a works cited page in proper MLA format. So below you will find pre-made entries that you can cut and paste into the works cited page at the end of your papers. Of course, for any additional material you use, you will have to create the citations yourself..

If you are writing about Dante:

Alighieri, Dante. The Inferno. Dante On Line. Societa Dantesca Italiana, n.d. Web. 09 May 2016.

If you are writing about Antigone:

Johnston, Ian, trans. Sophocles’ Antigone. 442 B.C. n.p. Johnstonia Web. May 2005. Web. 9 May 2016.

If you are writing about The Code of Hammurabi:

"Ancient History Sourcebook: Code of Hammurabi, C. 1780 BCE." Internet History Sourcebooks. n.p., n.d. Web. 16 May 2016.


If you are writing about: Deuteronomy:

Deuteronomy. New International Version. Bible Gateway. Web. 5 May 2016.


If you are writing about “The Lottery”:

Jackson, Shirley. “The Lottery.” Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Ed. X.J. Kennedy and Diana Gioia. 6th ed. New York: HarperCollins, 1995. 298-300. Print.


If you are writing about “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”:

Le, Guin U. K. “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas.” The Wind's Twelve Quarters: Short Stories. New York: Harper & Row, 1975. Print.


If you are writing about the Trial of Susanna Martin:

Mather, Cotton. The Wonders of the Invisible World. 1693. London: John Russell Smith, 1862. Project Gutenberg. Web. 9 May 2016.