Annotated bibliography notes

What is an annotated bibliography?

•Same format as MLA bibliography: alphabetized list of sources (w/o numbers), reverse indented, blank lines between entries;

•Reflects EVERY source you looked as in creation of project;

•Following source information, includes a paragraph that:

• •analyzes the author’s experience, credibility, and purpose in writing

• •analyzes the sources audience and argument

What goes into my annotation paragraph?

•Academic background, intellectual pedigree of the author (Where were they educated, what was their degree, where have they worked, what specialty or expertise do they bring to bear, what types of other works have they published?

•Who published the work and why (What type of other material do they publish? For what audience? How is it received?

•References included (What sources are quoted in the work? What materials are listed in the “Works Cited,” “Bibliography” or “Further Reading” table?

•The information presented in the source itself (What question does the author seek to answer via the material? For what purpose? To what extent is the material valid? Is the information verifiable by other sources?

Syllabus, week of March 18

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO DROP OUT OF HISTORY and remove yourself from society? If society treats us unfairly, and there’s no justice in America, can we choose to leave society, refusing to participate in it’s unfair and unjust policies? This week, we will see one member of the Brotherhood attempt to do just this, and he is recuded to the most base and offensive methods of survival—or so the Invisible Man believes.

MONDAY

• Reading chapter eighteen together in class.

• Finish writing the anntoated bibliography. Your Noodle page should have five sources on it, and each source should have one paragraph that critically examines the author, publisher, and the source itself.

TUESDAY

• Overview of the week. Lecture on the sexualization and dehuminzation of black American men during the times of Jim Crow. We will then turn to St. Louis University’s online exhibit on Sambo. Students will work in research groups, examining this theme.

• Finish chapter 18, and then read chapter 19 for class tomorrow.

WEDNESDAY

• We will look carefully at chapter twenty nd what the IM does AFTER his encounter with Clifton on the streets of New York City.

• If we haven’t finished the chapter by the end of class, finish reading chapter 20.

THURSDAY

• Today, students will begin writing a first draft of the junior theme paper. This paper should answer the question, “What is the most important, least obvious theme that your author explores in the novel? What do the experts say about that theme? What is your view of that theme? We will meet in 377-N to work on these papers.

• Read chapter 21. This is the Invisible Man’s fourth speech in the novel (the Battle Royale, the Eviction, the Brotherhood Convention, and this one, the Funeral).

FRIDAY

• Today is a repeat of yesterday. My hope is that you will have a first, rough draft on the paper done by the end of class.

• Spring break! No homework.

"little black sambo" @ Wash U, SLU

This on-line exhibit explores the history of the Sambo icon as a pastiche of cultural and racial identities, and then explores how the image is adopted in America as a racist trope that embodies the Jim Crow attitude of white Americans.

Explore it here.

Syllabus, week of March 11

THIS IS THE LAST WEEK OF A FLIPPED CLASSROOM, and you should be done with your novel by the March 7. If you are going past that deadline, endeavor to finish no later than this weekend. Also this week, everyone should meet with Mr. Easton outside of class for a brief conversation about your junior theme book, specifically a) what it is about, and b) what you think the book’s major theme is.

MONDAY

• Examining the idea of duality in the black American experience via W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folks. We will first read a secondary analysis of the work, and then begin the first chapter on that essay collection.

• Read the foreword and the first chapter to Du Bois’s text.

TUESDAY

• Overview of the annotated bibliography. We will discuss what goes into the paragraph that follows the MLA bibliographic entry. In small groups, you will read the first chapter of The Craft of Research, which reviews what research is and why writing during the process of research is so important.

• Continue locating your five, thematic sources that examine your novel’s theme. Read the next ten pages of Invisible Man (chapter eighteen), wherein Brother Tarp gives the IM the link that held him enslaved before his escape.

WEDNESDAY

• Returning to Invisible Man. We’ll look at two pages from an online essay, as an example of sources that require careful analysis, when including these on your annotated bibliography. We will then finish reading chapter

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THURSDAY

• Today, students will work in their small research groups. Begin by reporting out which resources you have found, when investigating further the theme of your chosen novel. Include which data bases / research tools you’ve used to locate those materials. Subsequently, students will work on writing the paragraph “annotations” for each source.

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FRIDAY

• Meeting in the library. Today, you will begin copying and pasting the annotation paragraphs that analyzie your sources to Noodle.

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Essay on "Twoness"

Go here. The entire Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois is located on Project Guttengerg.

Syllabus, week of March 4

THIS IS THE LAST WEEK OF A FLIPPED CLASSROOM, and you should be done with your novel by the March 7. If you are going past that deadline, endeavor to finish no later than this weekend. Also this week, everyone should meet with Mr. Easton outside of class for a brief conversation about your junior theme book, specifically a) what it is about, and b) what you think the book’s major theme is.

MONDAY

• Today we will have a substitute teacher. We will read an annotate the article on Sambo in the 20th centry. Subsequently, students will sign up on a shared google doc for 5 minute conferences about your theme novel.

• Reading your junior theme novel.

TUESDAY

• We will pick up reading in Ellison’s Invisible Man. We will also begin discussing Sambo and other iconic, racist images from 19th, 20th, and sadly the 21st century, in particular Sambo and other minstrel images like Jim Crow.

• Reading your junior theme novel.

WEDNESDAY

• Examining racist images in late 20th and early 21st century America. We will start with this video from Sunday Morning. We will also watch two clips from this past month’s Daily Show with Trevor Noah, a South African comedian who is particulary interested in American race issues. Finally, we will take a look at the “mammy” figure in Warner Bros. Tom and Jerry cartoons, as well as Bugs Bunny and blackface/Sambo Elmer Fudd.

• Keep reading your junior theme novel.

THURSDAY

• Reading chapter 17, wherein we meet Tod Clifton and experience another version of the battle royale, this one a street fight between the Brotherhood and Ras the Exhorter.

• Reading your junior theme novel.

FRIDAY

• Meeting in the library. Based upon our discussions, most of you are primed to read articles/ chapters/ and other sources that explain what other experts think of your chosen novel. What do these experts say about your book?

• Reading your junior theme novel. When we return to IM, Brother Tod Clifton will have disappeared, leaving the Brotherhood youth in Harlem in disarray.

Smithsonian: National Museum of African American History and Culture

The link above will take you to the museum, where you can explore artifacts similar to that of Brother Tarp’s link.

Sambo the 20th Century Miracle

You will want to read through this handout on the history of Sambo, an iconic racist image of Black Americana.

Syllabus, week of February 25

WE ARE USING A CONTINUING WITH OUR FLIPPED CLASSROOM. For homework, over the next one and-one-half weeks, your homework is to finish reading and annotating your junior theme novel. Within class, we’re studying Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man.

MONDAY

• We will start today by examining the dual meaning in chapter 15, picking up with the cockroaches that we left on Friday. How is the banging on the pipes as a way of "waking up" the people of Harlem? Make a prediction: Will the iM become the race-leader that Mary encourages him to become? We will start chapter 16, examining the “Hooverville shanties” from the IM’s memory.

• Reading your junior theme novel.

TUESDAY

• Listening to and analyzing chapter sixteen, the IM’s first, formal speech to the people of Harlem.

• Reading your junior theme novel.

WEDNESDAY

• In chapter seventeen, the IM becomes the spokespearson for Harlem and meets Brother Tarp, who shares his symbol of enslavement: a Jim Crow era shackle from a chain-gang.

• Reading your junior theme novel.

THURSDAY

• Meeting in the library. By the time you leave today, you should have five (5) sources on your novel in your noodle-tool bibliography.

• Reading your junior theme novel.

FRIDAY

• Classes do not meet because of early dismissal day.

• Reading your junior theme novel. When we return to IM, we will also meet Clifton and Ras the Exhorter, respectively a young, good looking leader from the Brotherhood and the West-Indes advocate of Pan-Africanism (and surrigate for Marcus Garvey).

Syllabus, week of February 18

WE ARE USING A FLIPPED CLASSROOM model of learning. For homework, over the next two and-one-half weeks, your homework is reading and annotating your junior theme novel. Within class, we’re studying Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man.

MONDAY

• No school for President’s Day

• No homework.

TUESDAY

• Finishing chapter 14, wherein the IM accepts a job with The Brotherhood, a political activism group that seeks equal-rights for black Americans. We will also meet with study partners, working together to complete reading questions about the chapter(s).

• Reading your junior theme novel.

WEDNESDAY

• No school for standardized testing.

• Reading your junior theme novel.

THURSDAY

• Examination of chapter 15. This chapter is filled with racist paraphernalia, and we will examine some of this iconography closely, especially the “Jim Crow” bank.

• Reading your junior theme novel.

FRIDAY

• No school for Institute Day.

• Reading your junior theme novel.

Syllabus, week of February 11

BY WEDNESDAY, YOU SHOULD OWN A COPY of your independent novel. When you annotate, besides circling vocabulary and writing your questions, attempt to define the novel’s theme. Put another way, if the novel itself is the author’s response to a question, what question does the novel address? On Wednesday in class, you will create a homework chart for yourself, planning on reading the novel outside of class over a three week period. You will be responsible for completing this task on your own. I will check novels at the half-way point, and we will conduct a page one analysis in class on Wednesday to kick off the reading.

MONDAY

• Day two of Br’er Rabbit. We will look at the tar baby cartoon, and attempt to read, aloud, some fo Joel Chandler Harris’s tales. “"Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear” as well as “Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-Frog.” Note: If Br’er Rabbit is the analogue for Black Americans trying to survive a violent south, Br’er Fox and Br’er Rabbit are the analogues for dumb and violent White Americans (another, and also offensive, stereotype).

• HW: You should have finished chapter 13 for class on Wednesday.

TUESDAY

• Chapter 12 discussion: who is Mary? How is the IM beginning to fight back against his type (but dumping the spittoon on the Reverend’s head and getting expelled from the Men’s House—his third expulsion so far!)? We will also get to the Langston Hughes poem, “Let America Be America Again.”

• HW: Spend some time researching your novel. Remember, you want to use the literature resources from NT Library to locate journal articles and other written works that analyze your novel in depth (greater than what a book review might cover).

WEDNESDAY

• Analysis of chapter 13, the eviction of the Provo couple, and the second speech that the IM gives, this time to a black audience, and the IM’s introduction to the Brotherhood.

• HW: Begin reading the novel for your theme research project.

THURSDAY

• We will begin reading chapter 14 together, in which the IM gets his new name (we don’t know what it is) from the Brotherhood, and he gives his first speech.

• HW: Reading your theme novel.

FRIDAY

• In library, again. Mr. Stu will review Noodle bid. You will receive your first junior theme research assignment: five sources on your bib: 2 book reviews, and 3 journal articles/chapters on your novel.

• HW: You should have read your theme novel by March 7. Plan accordingly.

The VA Governor's yearbook

During a press conference, Gov. Ralph Northam (D-VA) addressed a racist photo on his medical school yearbook page which showed one person wearing blackface and another dressed in the Ku Klux Klan's signature white hood and robes.