To supplement the reading materials for your unit of study, you will develop an annotated listing of 9-12 additional source material which would be useful to you and your students as a part of your unit.
Acceptable Resources
Resources may include: young adult literature (or selected passages from YA lit or adult literature); children’s literature; magazine articles; newspaper articles, websites, videos (or selected scenes from videos).
Required Range of Source Material To Be Included in the Annotated Bibliography
o A minimum of 3-4 appropriate works of Children’s Literature and Young Adult Literature. Please know you can create an annotated bibliography which only includes Children’s and YA Literature.
o Other acceptable sources:
o A maximum of 3-4 appropriate content-rich, web-based vidcasts: YouTube, TeacherTube, iTunesU, National Geographic, International Reading Association, other educational resources
o A maximum 3-4 Original Web-based resource materials: Prezi, Blogs, Wikis, WebQuests, Podcasts, National Geographic, other nationally credible and/or educational resources
Criteria for Annotation
• Follow the expectations of APA 6th edition to cite your sources
• Provide a brief annotation for each source (4-6 sentences) identifying the following:
(a) the relevant content/themes/issues in the reading that relate to content of unit;
(b) the reading [accessibility] level of the material. Use the following terms as a part of your description: frustration level, instructional level, independent level.
Sample Annotation:
Mochizuki, K. (1995). Heroes. New York: Lee and Low Books.
Even though this book is written at the elementary level and therefore could be read independently by any of my eighth grade students, this is a book I could read-aloud as a part of many of my units which include an investigation of war, heroes, and enemies. It is a provocative book that will, no doubt, lead to much discussion in my unit on WWII. The major themes in this book related to my unit are as follows: why war is interesting to children; bad guy v. good guy; the characteristics of a hero; propaganda and its lasting influence on cultural views.
