Annotated Bibliography (40pts)

9th Reading Lab

Essential Question:Radiants: What is the history of crash test dummies?

Brilliants: What is autism? Is it caused by vaccines?

Gurus: What is the history of Iraq’s laws? How are they making their new laws?

Standards Addressed:

Reading 1. Infer main idea in a complex nonfiction passage.

Writing 2. Consistently produce text that stays fully focused on the prompt.

Reading 4. Analyzing news articles or other nonfiction to identify speaker’s tone and viewpoint.

Reading 5. Using organizational features in a bibliography to locate relevant information.

Directions:

  1. Make a list of search terms you will use. You are trying to answer your ESSENTIAL QUESTION (EQ).

2. Use your search terms. Skim the articles you find. Choose one that will help you answer your EQ. Your chosen article should answer the question with the most detail and original, interesting conclusions. The article must have a bibliography. Write the Author, Title, and Year below.
3. Approve your article with the teacher. Print it. If it is longer than 5 pages, print the abstract (or first page) and the bibliography, for a total of 5 pages.
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4. Read over your chosen article. Write an annotation, summarizing it and highlighting the most important information.
5. Write an MLA citation for your article.
6. Use the bibliography at the end of your article to decide what to read next. Make a list of the 3 articles you want to read, in order of importance. Write a short explanation of why you want those articles.
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7. Find the articles you highlighted and wanted to use. Choose at least two more to add to your list of annotations. List them below. Follow steps 4-5 for each one.
8. Organize your annotated bibliography alphabetically by last name, annotations after each citation. Do a rough draft below and the final draft on another piece of paper.

Annotated Bibliography Grading Rubric:

Unsatisfactory - F / Partial Proficient - C / Proficient - B / Advanced - A
Useful Articles Found / None of the articles are scholarly. / Less than 3 articles.
Articles are not all scholarly. / Find at least 3 articles that relate directly to essential question A.
Articles are high quality and scholarly, not Wikipedia or non-referenced sources. / Everything from proficient, plus…
More than 3 useful, scholarly articles.
Synthesis of Information / No annotations. / Annotations miss important information or main idea.
Annotations are concise but unfocused.
Tangents and irrelevant information present. / Annotations correctly synthesize information in articles.
Annotations are concise and focused.
No tangents or irrelevant information. / Everything from proficient, plus…
More than 3 annotations.
MLA Format / Many mistakes in MLA format. / 7 or less mistakes in MLA format. / Correctly follow MLA format as provided in notes. / Everything from proficient, plus…
Perfectly follow MLA format.