Most schools lead up to their homecoming dance with a homecoming spirit week. Spirit weeks often involve many events, so make sure you know who and what will be available to you. Talk with your staff adviser about equipment such as tables and chairs. Make sure these are ready for you at least a few hours before the dance so that you can set up. Talk with school administration to make sure your vendors have designated areas to park, unload, and set up. Remember, those with heavy equipment will need to be close to the venue. Create a plan for the day of the dance. Work with your committee and any additional volunteers to assign duties such as setting up chairs and decorating. Make sure everyone knows their job well in advance. Give yourself and your volunteers at least six hours to set up the dance. Get decorations set up as much as possible before your vendors arrive. Have the DJ, photographer, and chaperons arrive early. Show the DJ the area where they will be working, and give the photographer a tour of the space. Delegate duties to the chaperons such as helping with coat check, monitoring the dance floor, or helping with crowd control. Show them where they need to be and put them in touch with the day-of coordinator. Make sure you and all of your volunteers have some time to enjoy the dance, as well. Build breaks into your volunteers' schedules so that everyone has some time to have fun. For example, let a ticket-taker relieve your day-of coordinator for a while once everyone is in, or get a chaperone to stand in on coat-check while the coat attendants go dance. Your volunteers are students, as well. Give them time to enjoy their efforts. As soon as the dance is over, start taking down decorations and cleaning. Find out what your school's facilities services will take care of, and plan to do the rest with your volunteers. Facilities services often cover things like vacuuming, mopping, and bathroom cleaning. Decorations, tables, chairs, and equipment are often the homecoming committee's responsibility. Bring extra cleaning supplies such as paper towels, trash bags, sponges, and cleaning solution. This will help take care of any smaller marks or scuffs around the venue. Make sure all trash gets to a designated trash area. Ask your school if you need to schedule a dumpster drop-off and pick-up for event clean-up.
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One-sentence summary -- Prepare for the week before. Set up the venue. Enjoy the dance. Clean up the venue.

Q: If there is a by-line for the article you want to cite, your bibliographic citation should begin with the author's last name. Place a comma after the last name, then add the author's first name. End this portion of your citation with a period. Example: Kent, Clark. If there's no author, skip to the next element in the citation. After the name of the author, provide the full title of the article along with any subtitle. Separate the title and the subtitle (if any) with a semicolon. Use title-case, capitalizing nouns and verbs. Place a period after the end of the title, inside the quotation marks. Example: Kent, Clark. "Villains Take Over Gotham; Superman Stays Away." After the name of the article, identify the newspaper in which the article appeared. Even if you found the article online, use the name of the newspaper itself, not the name of the website. If the city isn't included in the name of the newspaper, include it in square brackets after the name of the newspaper. Place a comma after this part of your citation. If you include the city in italics, it isn't italicized. Example: Kent, Clark. "Villains Take Over Gotham; Superman Stays Away." The Daily Planet [Metropolis], After the name of the newspaper, type the date the article was published using day-month-year format. Place a comma, then type the page number on which the article appears. If there's no page number, place a period after the date. Example: Kent, Clark. "Villains Take Over Gotham; Superman Stays Away." The Daily Planet [Metropolis], 17 July 2017, p. A1. If the article appears online without a page number, simply place a period after the date of publication. Generally, MLA uses parenthetical citations within the text of your paper or presentation to refer your reader to the full citation in your Works Cited page. Example: (Kent, A1) If there's no author listed, place the first word or words of the title in quotation marks for your parenthetical. If there's no page number, simply leave that part out.
A: Start with the name of the author. Type the title of the article in quotation marks. Provide the name of the newspaper in italics. Include the date the article was published and the page number. Use the author's name and page number for in-text citations.

Article: Find an object or distance between two points you want to measure. This can be a length of wood, string, or cloth, or a line on a sheet of paper. Rulers and yardsticks are better to use on hard flat surfaces. If you are measuring a person for clothing it is best to use a flexible tool like a seamstress' tape. Long distances can be measured using a measuring tape. This will usually be on the left side. Make sure the end of the ruler is flush with your object. Use your left hand to hold it in place. Use your right hand to adjust the other end of the ruler. You will now read the ruler to see how long the object is. Read the last number on your ruler that is alongside the object. This will indicate the "whole unit" length of the object, example: 8 inches. Count the number of fraction marks (dashes) the object you are measuring goes beyond the last whole number. If your ruler is marked in 1/8 inch increments, and you are 5 marks past the last whole unit number, you will be 5/8 inches beyond the 8, and your length will be read "8 and 5/8 inches'. Simplify fractions if you are able. For example, 4/16 of an inch is the same as 1/4 inch. You will be reading measurements in units of 10, following the metric system. Read the larger hashmarks as centimeters. Go to the nearest centimeter line. That will indicate the "whole unit" length. For example, 10 centimeters. In the case of a metric rule marked in centimeters (cm), read the intermediate marks as millimeters (mm). Read how many intermediate marks go past your whole unit measurement to the edge of the object. For example, if you measured an object that was 10cm plus 8mm, your measurement would be 10.8cm. A retractable steel measuring tape would work best for this. Slide the zero end of the tape against one wall, or have a helper hold it, then pull out enough tape to reach the opposite wall. Here, you should have two sizes of numbers, the larger for feet (or meters), the smaller, for inches (or centimeters). Read the feet (or meters) first, inches (or cm), then fractions thereof. Example, a distance may read "12 feet, 5 and 1/2 inches". You can also use rulers as straight edges in art or geometry. Lay it down on the surface you are drawing on, and lay your pencil point along the edge of the rule. Use your ruler as a guide for a straight edge. Keep holding the ruler steady to get the straightest line possible.
Question: What is a summary of what this article is about?
Measure with a ruler or tape measure. Place the zero end of your rule at the end of your object. Move to the opposite side of the object you are measuring. Use a metric or decimal rule with a metric ruler. Use a tape measure to measure between objects, for instance, walls. Use your 12 inch rule (or similar instrument, like a yardstick) to draw a straight line.