These two screencasts describe the article review assignment that I use in my 300-level classes. It’s keyed to the Reading and Summarizing Secondary Sources handout.

This demo is an article review of Mark Rifkin’s essay “Romancing Kinship: A Queer Reading of Indian Education and Zitkala-Sa’s American Indian Stories.” We just read the introductory section in my “Native American Texts and Contexts” class. (The videos will only work on computers or mobile devices that support Flash.)

Part I – Identifying key terms and the thesis

Part II – Outline and summary

Incidentally, I created these screencasts using Jing. It’s a pretty handy tool.