Ms. A. Williams

9th Grade Year Search Project
Part 1: Use the research steps below to find 8 significant or interesting events that occured during your year.
1. Determine your keyword... in this case it will be your year.
2. Reference books on the cart.
3. Online Resources:

• Thomson Gale Student Resource Center Gold
  

Part 2: Find more information on 3 of your events
1. Determine your keyword.
2. Reference books on the cart and the shelf.
3. Online Resources:

• NoodleTools
• Thomson Gale Student Resource Center Gold
• Proquest History Study Center
• World Book Online Encyclopedia
• Facts on File

Elie Wiesel's Night Research for Partner Presentations... 1.07
1. Determine your keywords. You may want to generate a list. Spelling counts.
2. OPAC- do a power search to look for books that may be on the shelf. (Remember, biographies will have the call #92, while books on the holocaust will have the #940.)
3. Reference books and books on the shelf.
4. Online Resources (These databases will give you links to REPUTABLE web sites as well.)
Thomson Gale... Opposing Viewpoints/Student Resource Center Gold
Proquest History Study Center
Proquest Historical Newspapers
Facts on File
World Book Encyclopedia
NoodleTools

Julius Caesar Research Project Research Steps
1. Determine your keywords. Spelling counts. Use "quotation marks" around any phrases: more than one word.
2. OPAC... Do a POWER search for books on your topic.
3. Reference books and books on the cart.
4. Online Resources:

• Thomson Gale Student Resource Center Gold
• Proquest History Study Center
• World Book Online Encyclopedia

Antigone 1/06
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The Old Man and the Sea Research

Author information:
Literature Resource Center
From the Thomson Gale Database.

World War I and II Research:
History Study Center
Student Resource Center Gold
From the Thomson Gale Database.
World Book Encyclopedia
Facts on File

Cuba:
Culture Grams
(Click on World Edition and use password & username: windyhillms OR plumpointms)
World Book Encyclopedia
Facts on File

Joe DiMaggio & Baseball:
Student Resource Center Gold
From the Thomson Gale Database.
History Study Center
World Book Encyclopedia

Huckleberry Finn Research

Superstition
Mark Twain and his Times
Excellent information put together by Stephen Railton, Department of English, University of Virginia
History Study Center
Search for "superstiton" in the 1800s.

Mesmerism
Mark Twain and his Times
Excellent information put together by Stephen Railton, Department of English, University of Virginia
History Study Center
Do a search for "mesmerism."

Public Spectacles (lynching, tarring & feathering)
Mark Twain and his Times
Excellent information put together by Stephen Railton, Department of English, University of Virginia
History Study Center
Do a search for "lynching," or "tarring and feathering."
Student Resource Center Gold
This is a Thomson Gale database. Do an advanced search.

Censorship of Huck Finn (then---mid 1800's)
Literature Resource Center
From the Thomson Gale Database.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/huckfinn/hfconcrd.html
Read about how the book was banned in Concord, 1885.
Mark Twain and his Times
Excellent information put together by Stephen Railton, Department of English, University of Virginia
Proquest Historical Newspapers
Here you can find actual articles from the 1800s about the book.

Censorship of Huck Finn (now--21st cent)
Literature Resource Center
From the Thomson Gale Database.