Category: Unit 2 (Page 2 of 3)

Before we meet again on Monday, 10/23, you should locate all three of the sources you plan on using for your Unit 2 Reflective Annotated Bibliography assignment.

The post assignment over the weekend is fairly simple. Find your THREE sources, and in a comment below, list them out.

Include the TITLES of the sources, the sources’ AUTHOR or AUTHORS(or the organization that created it if it was not created by any one person), the PUBLISHER of the source, and the GENRE of the source.

For example, if one of your sources was the article from the Guardian “Schools are Killing Curiosity,” you would include the following:

• “Schools are Killing Curiosity” by Wendy Berliner. Published by the Guardian. Online Newspaper Article.

Alternatively, if one of your sources was the YouTube video about black holes, you would include the following:

• “Black Holes Explained — From Birth to Death” by Kurzgesagt (an organization). Published on YouTube. Online Video.

Please remember that you must have THREE sources in THREE different genres.

Keep in mind that you will be required to post a rough draft of your first source entry on Wednesday, 10/25. SO GET STARTED NOW!

FINALLY, if you have not completed your seventh post assignment and commented on the seventh posts of two of your peers, do so ASAP.

Consult the KWL+ worksheet we completed in class, and write a blog post (at least 400 words) in which you introduce your research question.

What is important here–and I can’t stress this enough–is that you research something you want to know more about, not something you think you already know the answer to.  You may be curious to know why there are so few African American ballerinas in major companies, or you may want to know how much “housing projects” have changed in New York since James Baldwin wrote “A Talk to Teachers” in 1963, or you may want to know what we really learn from playing computer games.  Just be curious.

REMEMBER YOU MUST GET YOUR TOPIC APPROVED BY ME! 

To complete your post:

1. Type your research question at the top. Remember that this should not be a simple yes or no question.
2. Address the following two questions in paragraph form:
   1. Why are you interested in this question?  (Feel free to talk about your own personal experience with the topic, or to tell an anecdote about your experience with this subject matter) 
   2. What do you expect to find in your research? (Why do you expect to find this?) Remember that it’s okay to be wrong–-you might find a completely different answer than the one you intended to find. You won’t get marked down for that on your Unit 2 assignment!