Mr. Sammons

Sammons

12th Grade Reflective Research Paper
Use the databases below to find information of a topic of your choice. The databases below will provide you with hundreds of topics to choose from. They will provide you with all of the information you will need.

• Thomson Gale Opposing Viewpoints
• SIRS
• Facts on File Issues and Controversies

11th Grade Research Paper
Before you start your research, you MUST have a topic already picked out.
Follow the steps on Mr. Sammon's handout and use the research worksheet provided.
Research Steps:
1. Determine Your Keywords.
2. OPAC: Power search for books related to your topic.
3. Reference books: especially check out the following:

• Characters in 20th Century Literature, REF 809 HOW
• American Writers Classics, REF 810
• Novels for Students, REF 809.3
• Major 20th Century Writers, REF 920 MAJ

4. Online Databases

• Literature Resource Center
  username: lusb44800, password: lub
• Proquest Learning: Literature
  password: welcome
• Proquest Professional Education
• Thomson Gale Student Resource Center Gold

Edgar Allen Poe Project:
http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/poe/Work.html#Short-Stories

Gatsby... 4/1/06
1. Determine your keywords.
2. OPAC... POWER search for books on your topic.
3. Reference books, especially the Decade books.
4. Online Resources

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

5. Other helpful links:

• F. Scott Fitzgerald and the 1920s Webquest

Research Paper... 2.16
Before you start your research, you MUST have a topic already picked out. Follow the steps on Mr. Sammon's handout and use the research worksheet provided. Research Steps:
1. Determine Your Keywords.
2. OPAC: Power search for books related to your topic.
3. Reference books.
4. Online Resources

• Thomson Gale Opposing Viewpoints
• Thomson Gale Student Resource Center Gold
• SIRS
• History Study Center
• Facts on File

11th Grade Research Paper
Before you start your research, you MUST have a topic already picked out.
Follow the steps on Mr. Sammon's handout and use the research worksheet provided.
Research Steps:
1. Determine Your Keywords.
2. OPAC: Power search for books related to your topic.
3. Reference books: especially check out the following:
Characters in 20th Century Literature, REF 809 HOW
American Writers Classics, REF 810 AME
Novels for Students, REF 809.3 NOV
Major 20th Century Writers, REF 920 MAJ
4. Online Databases
Literature Resource Center **fixed 1/3/06**
History Study Center
Anything else on the online databases page linked above.