Resources+for+Research

Dear Students,

For your //Animal Farm// Research Activity, Mrs. Schatz has done a little preliminary research for you to reassure you that you can find valuable, useful and understandable information using the online databases the school district purchases for your use. Here’s what she found:


 * BEFORE** you begin your search you should think up different search words/phrases, brainstorm with another human for those words/phrases or visit a thesaurus such as the link below. Don't try just one word and quit---try several, many, loads, heaps, hordes, scads, tons, and oodles.

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Scroll down the page,--the Information Please website offers its own suggestions which are good at times. This website had a lot of good information!!!!

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Online database:

Use the middle tab entitled Topic and click on the links—this is easy and fast

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Use for biographical information including links to websites, pictures, etc. There is a chance you may have to hit the refresh button at the top—this site doesn’t always automatically come up.

Resources:

 * Read George Orwell's Animal Farm free online!
 * Library of Congress 1930s-40s in Colora photo in Flickr
 * Propaganda Criticsite dedicated to propaganda analysis

When you’ve __totally__ exhausted all of the databases, encyclopedias and books in the library, then you may use Google, but when putting in search words using +, use site:edu or site:org after the word(s) For example: propaganda + animal farm site:edu Propaganda + animal farm site:org Leningrad + city site:edu Pravda + newspaper site:edu

HINT—remember the notebooks at each computer entitled Research/Search—loads of helpful hints in searching in there!!!!

Good luck!!! Enjoy your research and have fun learning!