As you zoom in on your research question, please begin an annotated bibliography.
If you are one of the 6 students (out of 72) who have started a document and shared it with me, you can just use that same document to start your annotated bibliography...the remaining 66 of you have to begin a new document and share it with me.
Please name your document as follows: MVA/Lastname
An annotated bibliography looks like this:
MLA citation
brief paragraph summarizing the content of the source material
Here's an example.
Alcindor, Vamiche. "Rough First Week Gives Betsy DeVos a Glimpse of the Fight Ahead."New York Times 19 Feb. 2017: Print.
Betsy Devos, the Trump administration's controversial pick to head the US Department of Education, is off to a rocky start in her new cabinet role as Secretary of Education. On her first day, she was blocked by demonstrators from visiting a local Washington DC school; later in the same week, Devos offended teachers whose classrooms she visited. Saying that she would be satisfied to "work herself out of a job," she is among those in the administration who seek to dismantle the US Department of Education, thereby transferring decisions surrounding curriculum to states and local districts. A vocal proponent of school choice programs, DeVos is widely considered to be unqualified for her job, having never worked in any capacity in the public schools, and faces stiff opposition from teachers and unions across the nation.
Let's see how many of these you can finish in the time you have allotted. I am thinking you could probably pull 5 sources today.
Some of you are still looking at multiple topics. This is fine. I don't care at this point whether your sources are in one subject area or not.
However, by next week, you will want to have made your decision, and have your research question formulated. Keep working on it. See you on Monday.
