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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.

This is how I annotate this by underlining the important things in this paragraph. Several years ago one of my students conducted a research project investigating preschoolers’ conceptions of [4] Native Americans. For this sentence, I wrote a question mark on top because why do they need to ask the preschoolers for answer when they don’t know anything about Native Americans. The sentence that is underline is that how do they know how to draw when they are at that age. I bold the word stumped because I don’t know the meaning of it. Well, I think the thing that I annotate is important because the main idea was about a research project and the preschooler. Also the word that I did not know what it means.