English 1101: Annotated Bibliography & Research Proposal (These are both components of the overall Informative Research Project Essay #4)! Due Date: Annotated Bibliography is due on Wednesday, April 23! Prompt: 1. Your Annotated Bibliography must include 2-3 sources! It must be properly formatted according to the example in our textbook (pgs. 379-80). This must include a proper citation (MLA style) and a proper summary of the source. For review of summary see pages 396-98. Due Date: Research Proposal is due on Monday, April 28! Prompt: 2. Your research proposal should be about 1 ½ pages in length. Follow pages 372-76 for help with this assignment. The proposal must include: Paragraph 1: a brief discussion of the topic Paragraph 2: a brief indication of your specific focus Paragraph 3: a brief explanation of why you are interested in the topic Paragraph 4: a research plan (methodology) “Preliminary Works Consulted”: this should also include the citations from your annotated bibliography “Proposed Schedule” this should include a brief schedule of tasks related to the overall project English 1101: Annotated Bibliography Example Beauchamp, Sandra. “Mandan and Hidasta Families and Children.” Healing and Mental Health for Native Americans. Ed. Ethan Nebelkopf and Mary Phillips. Walnut Creek: Altamira Press, 2004. 65-73. Print. Sandra Beauchamp’s chapter focuses on the importance of a healthy family within the Native American community. According to Beauchamp, the family unit was put at high risk during the assimilation period particularly in the early Twentieth Century when many children were removed from their homes because of perceived neglect. Her research suggests that policies were often enforced through the lens of a “dominant culture perspective” instead of with sensitivity towards how Native Americans may have parented. This chapter also examines the assimilation practices of the mid to late Nineteenth Century in which children were often forcibly removed from their homes and put into Federal boarding schools. In these schools, they were converted to Christianity and were forbidden to speak their native languages. This chapter is of particular importance to the larger project because Skinner’s field notes often focus on the neglect and abuse of children. Beauchamp’s chapter provides some context for possible reasons why those conditions existed on the Shoshone Bannock reservation. ...