Nonfiction Mini-research Assignment
Nonfiction Mini-research Assignment
100 POINTS
Date due: Thursday, February 5
Objective: To summarize and present information related to the nonfiction selections "Hair," "It Can't Be Helped," and "By Any Other Name"
Assignment:
Choose one of the following topics to research using the media center and other outside resources
(including internet). Please highlight or circle your choice.
Prepare a three paragraph mini-essay of the information found. Structure of mini-essay -
introduction (2 sentences min.), body (topic sentence, support, concluding sentence -5 sentences
min.), conclusion (application of information to story studied - 3 sentences min.).
On the same paper as the summary, write the appropriate Works Consulted entry. (See MLA handout).
Prepare a three minute presentation of your topic with a 10th-grade-level visual. (It will be timed.)
Topics: These topics are divided by story. You are only to choose one out of all of these selections.
- "Hair" - "During the 1940s, the African American communities in Harlem, Chicago, and Los Angeles were wellsprings of artistic creativity. Research the life and work of one of the following artists:"
Music: Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie
Dance: Katherine Dunham
Painting: Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence
Literature: Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright
- "It Can't Be Helped" -Research the history of the internment of Japanese Americans during WW II.
- "By Any Other Name" - Research one of the following topics:
Hinduism, the caste system, the history of India as a British colony, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Indira Gandhi,
Indian independence, Indian art and literature, Indian food
Grading: 100 possible points
Mini-essay
Content - 20 possible ______
Structure - 20 possible ______
Grammar and mechanics - 10 possible ______
Works Cited Entry - 10 possible ______
Presentation
Content - 25 possible ______
Visual - 10 possible ______
Time - 5 possible ______
Total ______
