Monday: Revalidate or create your Noodletools account
Essential Questions Presentation: Essential questions–simons
Choose a topic and write an essential question TKaM Newspaper Assignment–Simons If you don’t have the assignment packet handy, you can click the link to view it.
Tuesday: Find reliable sources. You can do a Google search, but since you have to carefully evaluate each source before you use it, it takes a lot of time. A-TACO evaluating websites Instead, use sources that have already been evaluated for you.
Library Catalog–WebPath Express
You can also use sources that have been curated by a knowledgeable information professional (Mrs. Overcash, for example), like the ones below
GENERAL RESOURCES
World Book Advanced is more than just an encyclopedia. It includes primary source documents, images, audio, and video, in addition to the traditional information you expect from an encyclopedia.
Library of Congress–Images, articles, primary sources
About the Presidents–White House.gov
Timeline of the 1930s (year by year)
FOCUSED RESOURCES
“1930s News, Events, Popular Culture and Prices.” The People History
American Cultural History, 1930-1939
The Great Depression–History.com Includes video and written information
America Reacts to the Great Depression–includes links to more sources
Franklin Delano Roosevelt–American Heritage Center Museum
Herbert Hoover Biography.com
Herbert Hoover Biography.com–includes article and video
The Dust Bowl Biography.com–includes article and video
A Century of Progress–Chicago’s World’s Fair 1933
1st hand account of school in the 1930s
1930s Science and Technology Overview
Thursday: As you find sources to use, create citations in Noodletools
Read and take notes on each source–Noodletools is a big help here, too.
Write an annotation for two of your sources. This is where you show that you have read and understand the content of the source and that you have evaluated the credibility of the source. Use this template: WebsiteAnnotationtemplates
Friday: In-text citations, how to print Works Cited page
In-text citation and documentation
PrintingWorksCitedPage–Noodletools