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Research topics related to John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and create a presentation with your group based on your findings.

Objective

Your task is to research one of the listed topics pertaining to Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck and create an annotated bibliography that includes 2-3 sources on your research topic.

Topics

  • The Great Depression
  • Migrant Workers
  • Industrial Farming
  • Communism in American
  • The "American Dream" of land ownership, social mobility, and financial independence

Databases

Use these research databases to research your topic :

*Tip : Under "Advanced Search", filter by "Time Periods & Topic Centers : Great Depression to the New Deal, 1920-1939"

 

U.S. History In Context Web image

*Tip : Select "Great Depression" under "Browse Topics" and search within the topic

Timelines & Due Dates

Day 1 class:

Each student should find 2 academic resources from a scholarly database that focus on your assigned topic – no Wikipedia, no blogs, no encyclopedias, no dictionaries. USE THE LIBGUIDE Mrs. Minton has curated for us!

Day 1 Homework:

Read your two selected sources if you did not already do so in class.

Day 2 class:

Each student will create their own annotated bibliography. 

 

 

Day 3 Class: 

Finish and submit annotated bibliography

 

 


Fig. 1 "Farm Work From 6 AM to 7 PM for $1.00 Near Clarksdale, Mississippi." Women in America, 1999. 

Note-Taking

While we often use Noodletools to take notes and create bibliographies, we're creating ours from scratch for this assignment so we can better understand how MLA formatting works.

Let's start off taking notes from our sources!