This Bibliography was created as a request by one of my Dual Enrollment teachers who teaches a history course through our local community college, Houston Community College (HCC). Ms. Lawrence teaches this course both on campus at HCC and on our high school campus. She came to me to find more engaging texts for the following year and semester’s courses, as the book lists would be due to HCC for purchases and approval before the new semester began. The teacher provided me with two example Monograph assignments that they had done previously and the most current HCC book list for all HCC professors that teach this course. The request was for a more engaging resource that would also be developmentally appropriate for the high school students taking Dual credit as well as challenging and meeting the requirements of the monograph assignment covering the time period between 1877-1965 and 1966- Contemporary times. 

My process was to first identify the major eras and events that could be covered during the course time periods given and analyze the current offerings from the HCC book list provided by the teacher request. By analyzing the current list, I was able to evaluate the developmental appropriateness of the titles for a slightly younger demographic as well as diversity in titles and if the books used text features that would engage the readers. Once this was done, I went about first identifying books that my current library had to offer that would meet the criteria as these could be checked out to the requesting teacher to read and evaluate further before making the final decision. I also used various vendors and professional journal resources to find books that would meet the criteria and reviewed portions of each title using either a vendor website preview or other resources like Google Books to preview chapters.

This six week embedded information literacy project had English II students reporting to the library once a week during a research project to get instruction on different parts of the research lifecycle. 

1. Week 1- Credible & Reliable Sources 

   • Popular vs. Trade vs. Scholarly 

   • Primary and Secondary 

   • 5 Ws of Reliability 

   • Research Plan 

2. Week 2- Annotated Bibliography

   • Utilizing Google Tools for Citations - MLA format 

   • Annotated Bibliography instruction

   • Individual Research consultations

3. Week 3- Parenthetical Citations & Independent Work

   • Using created Annotated bibliography citations to determine In-Text Citations 

   • Individual Research Consultations 

4. Week 4- Peer Review & Research Synthesis Matrix 

   • Highlighting Citations to check Parenthetical citations accuracy

   • Revising for Embedding quotes

   • Analyzing drafts with a Research Synthesis Matrix