Over the next several days (Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday) you will complete the following tasks. Here is a link to the library website with shortcuts to the databases you'll use.
- Establish a research question.
- Some of your articles name these explicitly, others include a variety of perspectives, and others provide a depth of information. Your task is to sort through these and determine what question you want to explore.
- For example, for the Coates article we considered the question "Should the United States government pay reparations for slavery?"
- Research and read two additional articles.
- This will involve using the different databases, like we did with the Coates article, to find other articles exploring and taking a position on your question.
- Your articles need to be substantive - a brief editorial or letter will not suffice. It needs to also make an assertion and build a case through analysis of evidence and different factors. The length should be similar to the other articles you read.
- Complete a chart for each of these articles.
- This goes in the same Google Document as your other chart. Be sure to make a separate chart for each article.
- You will be submitting these articles with your completed project, and received credit for them.
- Here is a link to the blank version of that chart.
- Determine what other historical / background information you need to look up.
- These terms / people / historical events / etc. will help you to better understand the arguments being made.
- Add these terms to the historical events / details chart.
- Here is a link to the blank version of that chart.
- Keep track of the information about your sources.
- You will include a bibliography with your final project.
- Here is a link to the library's web site with detailed information about citing sources.
