27.2. "When Did Girls Start Wearing Pink?" RI2.

What Are We Learning That's New?

Using an ellipsis to remove words from a quotation that do not prove the point we want them to make.

What do You Need to Know for Today?

1. The open-ended question requires two SEE paragraphs. Because the two questions are related, you don't need to worry too much about transitions.

2. The examples must be specific information drawn from the text.

3. A direct quotation is most specific and therefore best, but good paraphrasing (if you can't find the quotation) or summarizing (if the proving example is scattered across a whole paragraph or is something that you inferred) is fine, too.

4. Use an ellipsis ( . . . ) to excise words from a quotation that do not prove your statement/explanation.

5. We're dropping the "extension" part of past years, instead include a sentence that you think expresses the WHY of the passage. Start it with, "It just goes to show that . . ." Here, I would use the theme that there is no accounting for taste, which means that what people like is either random or inscrutable.

What Is the Text?

This article from the great Smithsonian's website, "When Did Girls Start Wearing Pink?'

What Is the Product?

Answer this open-ended question on the Criterion website (if it's available to you).

The article explains the historical roots of clothing.

• According to the author, at what point did it become standard to dress little girls in pink and little boys in blue?
• Again, according to the text, who was most responsible for this change? Why?