To Kill a Mockingbird Research Resources

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

OSLIS

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 1930s–History.com

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

Chicago World’s Fair

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow

Jim Crow info and images

 Jim Crow Museum

 1930s Education Overview

1st hand account of school in the 1930s

1930s Science and Technology Overview

W.E.B. Debois

NAACP History

Booker T. Washington

Tuskegee Syphilis Study

Tuskegee Syphilis Study

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

Citationsamples

PrintingWorksCitedPage–Noodletools