Anotations on Article

(3.) Some examples will highlight the process. Several years ago one of my students conducted a research project investigating preschoolers’ conceptions of[4] Native Americans. Using children at a local day care center as her participants, she asked these three- and four-year-olds to draw a picture of a Native American. Most children were stumped by her request. They didn’t know what a Native American was. But when she rephrased the question and asked them to draw a picture of an Indian, they readily complied. Almost every picture included one central feature: feathers. In fact, many of them also included a weapon—a knife or tomahawk—and depicted the person in violent or aggressive terms.

How I annotate is by reading the paragraph several times. When I read it I chunk slowly and underline the important things in the paragraph. I take notes and write how I reacted to this paragraph. In this article this teacher is being races about Native Americans to preschoolers. She told them to draw an Indian and they did not know what an Indian was. She told them to draw an angry person with weapons and they followed her directions. Not all Native Americans are aggressive and she should have told them to draw a tribe or something different that 4 year olds know.